Agree. Nearly all the work of programming I have done is related to the task of trying to figure out the business problem in enough extreme detail to provide a

Agree. Nearly all the work of programming I have done is related to the task of trying to figure out the business problem in enough extreme detail to provide a solution. The main lever to improve productivity for me as a developer are open source tools, commercial APIs, and similar things. This isn't reducing the amount of programming, it's just moving it around. Magically 1,000x faster computers would maybe help me be 20% more productive.