Developers are using more and more code that has already been written. Sure we still code, but if you were coding in 1980 (like I was), then you know what I mea

Developers are using more and more code that has already been written. Sure we still code, but if you were coding in 1980 (like I was), then you know what I mean. I'm with you and the author that the non-technical customer is not going to be able to move the legos around on the screen until they have their working webapp. I've been a part of projects that promised those types of things, and they were failures for the most part. But, the trend is to have more and more complicated pieces that the developer puts together. The developer feels as if he/she has really done something significant, but what they did technically was more brainless than what a game programmer wrote in assembly in the early eighties, for sure. If developers need to know less and less about what is really going on, sure maybe they will still be called developers, but they'll be closer in function to the guy making your big mac. It won't happen overnight, but just because it hasn't happened yet and may not happen during our lifetimes doesn't mean it won't.