[rprend]

the most productive teams will be the ones that treat code as compiler output (which we never read)

legacy manual codebases which require human review will be the new "maintaining a FORTRAN mainframe". they'll stick around for longer than you'd expect (because they still work) , at legacy stagnant engineering companies

[danaw]

i disagree because i see code as the actual product of the thought behind it. it is after all a description of the intent of the programmer and programming language are what we use to communicate to machines

that said, we will see over the next few years who is right!