This seems over the top to me. Everything has issues, and everything is increasingly complex, not just programming. Take any industry and over a long enough tim

This seems over the top to me. Everything has issues, and everything is increasingly complex, not just programming. Take any industry and over a long enough time-span I'm sure things have also increased in complexity in drastic ways. Sure, programming is relatively new, and we are ramping up fast, but we already have vastly complex systems, tools, and infrastructure relying on programming which has incredibly impressive uptime and efficiency. Yes, people will die from errors in the code of autonomous cars, but at the same time can anyone argue that autonomous cars won't be significantly safer than us? The argument here seems to be that it's dangerous if the programmers relying on StackOverflow to copy/paste solutions work on real problems without "stepping up". I think that's like someone suggesting a bricklayer would suddenly be in charge of designing blueprints for a 150 storey skyscraper. They are different jobs performed by people doing very different things. They may write code in the same language, but they're not in the same profession.