I think there are different kinds of programming jobs, and this article is referring to the kind of dev job that puts together pieces to solve problems, but it

I think there are different kinds of programming jobs, and this article is referring to the kind of dev job that puts together pieces to solve problems, but it doesn't work at the fundamental level. to build a new operating system using the capabilities of some new hardware aspect, or say writing a new database that uses nvram and vector instructions to go fast, instead of the older dbs that generated a query and interpreted it row by row. You can't always get there by putting packages together. There are still people creating fundamental new infrastructure or building blocks. But probably a lot more people are just gluing things together to solve a problem.