[rightbyte]

Ye. I think there is way to much "automation" nowadays.

It is like all these business systems corparations use. They would probably be better off with some secretaries with typewriters sending internal paper mail.

Systems that try to automate too much are too rigid to use in a sane way.

The nice thing with a no computer system, is that if you want to do something, just do it. An analogue would be writing math notation on paper or on a computer. I can hardly imagine even Knuth prefering the later.

Computers should be used for well defined tasks they are good at with rather simple programs, or the whole business need to adjust to what the computer allows.

[sdepablos]

Well, I think that the demand of developers is not so much because of the increase complexity of systems but because a lot of companies think they need developers, when they only need technology, and a lot other think than just adding more devs is the solution (the hyperinefficiency of the hipergrowth companies is at this point legendary, as the guy earning $1.5M/y getting and losing - but getting paid nonetheless - multiple tech jobs at the same time proved)