> but incentivising someone from a field completely unrelated to CS to 'just code' sounds like pretty bad advice. I’m sorry but learning to code very custom or

> but incentivising someone from a field completely unrelated to CS to 'just code' sounds like pretty bad advice. I’m sorry but learning to code very custom or short lived software is just not that hard. I think you’re making programming too precious. Don’t get me wrong — writing good, maintainable, long lived software, and basically anything with a UI for non programmers, and certainly anything for sale, is much harder and usually something professionals or their equivalents will need to do especially for an institution. But writing scripts in interpreted languages like python or ruby for the research purposes of an individual or small group is not something people need to (or more importantly can) hire a dedicated team of engineers to do. IMO it’s good that programming has become more democratic. It’s an ongoing process. And one that has happened in basically all other creative industries to some extent.