[WheelsAtLarge]

We can look at the past to get a sense. Personally, I don't think there will be an extreme difference between now and then. A programmer or team of programmers will need to sit at a computer and put together a software app from start to finish. We won't be able to talk to a computer and have it build it for us. I do see a SWE having to have a stronger role in designing the software. Eventually, we will have tools that automate more of the process to write bigger programs with less effort. This is the way software has been advancing from the beginning. The idea that AI will take over is overblown at least in the near future.

What surprises me is that we don't have software that amateur programmers can program and customize at will. I think at some point when it's easier to program apps, professional programmers will be able to provide that functionality so we will be seeing more of that since the cost of a line of code will diminish. It will be more cost-effective to provide features that are too costly to provide now.