IMO, software engineering won't exist for another 50 to 200 years because: - It takes several years for someone to prove themselves as a developer among their

IMO, software engineering won't exist for another 50 to 200 years because: - It takes several years for someone to prove themselves as a developer among their peers and this reputation does not usually spread outside the confines of a single company. People have to prove themselves all over again each time they change company. - Big, high-exposure, high-influence software companies like Facebook, Google etc... force arbitrary tests on prospective developers (candidates); but these tests say nothing about a person's skill as a software developer. These tests are reliable at selecting for status-oriented individuals who can regurgitate solutions to common programming puzzles and present themselves as fast-talking and quick-thinking (I.e. Ben Shapiro archetype). These companies have a huge impact on global software development tools and philosophies; their recruitment decisions have a huge impact on deciding industry best-practices. The huge influx of superficial, fast-thinking, fast-talking software developers within the centers of power is making the software industry look like the medical industry 200 years ago when all reputable doctors insisted that blood-letting, electroshock therapy and lobotomies were reasonable treatments for most ailments. Their arguments relied on superficial, smart-sounding observations and appealed to the authority of large medical institutions. Modern developers like to leverage their associations with financially successful corporations 'sources of authority' to project themselves as top experts and to promote their agendas. - Too many people who have no sense of curiosity at all joined this industry purely for financial reasons over the past couple of decades; these status-oriented people will end up running all the big tech companies and enforcing their ill-conceived philosophies onto others, silencing inquisitive minds. It's a numbers game; the voices of the many high-status, fast-talking, loud-mouthed idiots will drown out those of the few quiet, low-status geniuses. We are entering the dark ages of software development.