There is a progress in computers doing more of the stuff that programmers used to do: * first we had assemblers and programmers did not need to remember all th

There is a progress in computers doing more of the stuff that programmers used to do: * first we had assemblers and programmers did not need to remember all those binary codes * then we had compilers and programmers could use the multitude of programming abstractions * then we had 'scripting languages' that abstracted away even more details In parallel we also have better libraries that implemented many other abstractions and we also had complete applications that did not need to be written from scratch. So computers do more and more - and also end users can do more and more by using ready made applications and sometimes linking them together (and maybe becoming programmers in the process little by little). But there is still work for programmers - because the skill of solving problems algorithmically is still special.