Yes and no. Yes, with those things the productivity per programmer is much higher. But the trend seems to be that increased productivity per programmer simply i

Yes and no. Yes, with those things the productivity per programmer is much higher. But the trend seems to be that increased productivity per programmer simply increases the work demanded to create products. The easier it is to add features to a project, the more features customers (and thus managers) will demand. This whole "everything will be automated and we'll all be out of work" argument I think is similar to the mistake made by Malthus, who famously predicted the world would become overpopulated and be unable to feed itself by the 20th century. There are several mistakes in his work, but one of the most prominent is not accounting for the fact that agricultural technology, and thus yields, also increase exponentially.