[osigurdson]

>> I'd much rather be able to write 10,000 lines of code that can do what your million lines of code does.

Sure, who wouldn't. Unfortunately this is my hypothetical and I get to control what I mean by it. The million lines of code in my hypothetical is good quality, maintainable with reasonable density.

>> Better programming languages, libraries, and other abstractions are what we need.

In the entire history of languages, we've only managed about a 10X improvement via these mechanisms (that is being charitable probably). Several important things are still written in C which would mostly be recognizable to a programmer from 40 years ago. There are still problems to solve but I feel we are on the asymptotic section of the curve in this regard.