[simonblack]

I've been a programmer since the 1970s. This bullshit theory gets trotted out every few years. 50 years in, and there are more and more programmers, not less and less.

[bediger4000]

Deluxe! Remember back about 1995, when Windows NT would make programmers 5 to 10 times more productive, and CEOs could get rid of the corresponding head count?

[mindcrime]

And yet... the past is no guaranteed predictor of the future.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_induction

[simonblack]

That's very true. But ... there has to be a change somewhere to get a different outcome. There has been no change, so there is no different outcome.