This is a very amusing article because I went in expecting fairly sophisticated arguments about Cloud, PaaS, DevOps, layers of abstraction, higher-level languag

This is a very amusing article because I went in expecting fairly sophisticated arguments about Cloud, PaaS, DevOps, layers of abstraction, higher-level languages/paradigms, etc. Perhaps this was naive, given the domain of origin. The irony is that the future probably will enable individual programmers to have an even more outsized ability to create value, and fewer programmers will be necessary to accomplish the same set of tasks. Sadly, cogent arguments about meaningful issues aren't exactly TechCrunch's forte.