[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.