We don't need "millions of Hemingway's". The parent comment was suggesting that very few people can code-- and by "code" they meant "production applications".

We don't need "millions of Hemingway's". The parent comment was suggesting that very few people can code-- and by "code" they meant "production applications". I am trying to say that lot's of people can code, well enough to solve their domain problems, well enough to put food on their tables, well enough to not need "real programmers" in increasing numbers of scenarios. Just because they're not doing internet scale application development or cutting edge mission critical projects doesn't mean they "can't code". There's a long and continuous spectrum between Hemingway-like programmers to bored-out-of-their-skulls enterprise developers to lunch-time dilettantes who are running a far more of their business than they should on brittle excel pivot tables and VBA macros.