[AussieWog93]

YMMV, but I'm 100% in agreement with GP about programming being the new literacy. I quit my old SWE job to run a bloody eBay store and am raking it in because I'm competing against people who can't program.

The trick, though, IMO, is not having a programmer solve the problem but getting people with domain expertise literate enough to write some hacky Python scripts.

This is, in my honest opinion, the next leap forward in terms of productivity.

[lordnacho]

This is exactly right. People who are actual programmers are like poets, essayists, or authors in the original literacy. They have a title that actually says "person is literate".

But there were always great poets and authors. The big win was that you got a bureaucrat class with their own domain titles who could use writing to get things done.

Likewise if the boss in the original article had been taught how to hack some scripts together, they wouldn't need to hire the author for $90k.