> “Why not just teach everyone to program? I hate this ideology and I always have. Human civilization progresses in part due to specialization, that we as a so

> “Why not just teach everyone to program? I hate this ideology and I always have. Human civilization progresses in part due to specialization, that we as a society don't have to learn to do everything in order to keep things functional.” Well, I hate your ideology :p programming is like language studies, math, sciences. It’s a fundamental way of living, interacting and, yes, functioning in the world. You don’t have to ask everyone to do it. There are plenty of people who communicate, but would struggle to write in their native language a few pages on a topic. Plenty of people say they’re “bad at math” and avoid the subject, and rely on the cash register to tell them how much change they should receive. You’re holding everyone to a ridiculous standard forming this opinion. /rant I love the topic. I’ve made scripts at work and trained non-programmers to use CLI tools to execute them. We should be talking about protocols for user friendly APIs and yet uninvented data pipeline endpoints which require less technical skill. For example, How can we let users create, try, fail with a database just as easily as they can with files on their PCs?