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Totally agree with your comments about the music industry, however I don't think the same applies to software development.

If many businesses can now get by with "mashing frameworks and libraries together" then that is a good thing - it means problems have been solved in a repeatable way that many people can benefit from, and the real software engineers, rather than doing the same old work over again can refocus on new challenges and create the frameworks and libraries of tomorrow.

Is that really a bad thing? The only people putting themselves out of a job are people trying to earn a living working on problems that were solved a long time ago.

Suggesting there are fewer jobs now for software engineers than any time in the past is a bit of a stretch!