[echelon]

> I think we are talking about different timespans. I am talking about change in the world after decades of something like that happening. How those Senior Engineers will know how good software looks like if they would never write it themeselves?

How will we know what good software looks like if we no longer write assembler?

> Imagine looking at someone driving a car for 20 years. Will it be enough for you to drive a car yourself?

You don't have to drive stick to be able to drive.

Whatever the economically important functions are, the miracle of capitalism will find a way to staff it and solve it.

People fill all the gaps. No problem goes uninvestigated, no opportunity goes ignored.

At the end of the day we're delivering value. We'll be judged on value creation, and that'll map itself to whatever the tools of the day happen to be.