[nightski]

The fact is that, as a computer programmer I don't even have to look for a job currently. I am surrounded by job opportunities and freelance contracts. Very high paying ones at that. So if there is indeed not a shortage, then I am missing something. But life is good currently for developers.

More importantly, the answer to the shortage in the long term should not be to try to get more of the same. Our real goal as computer scientists should be in making our own jobs more efficient. We need to empower more users to have control to manipulate the machine they are using instead of entrenching us deeper into this never ending hole of proprietary software that continually re-invents the wheel and never works precisely how the user would like.

More concretely, we need to automate programming by making it more accessible to everyone and eliminate our own jobs.