I generally agree. Maybe not totally, but software developers will have a very different job role in 10 years. The most obvious is BigQuery, Palantir, Snowflak

I generally agree. Maybe not totally, but software developers will have a very different job role in 10 years. The most obvious is BigQuery, Palantir, Snowflake, etc. So many data pipelines that currently need 10+ teams of engineers to work on will be done through SparkSQL and SparkML by 1 or 2 teams of Data Engineers (i.e. no distributed systems knowledge) instead. It’s not there yet, but dealing (in an asynchronous context) with data at scale is very close to getting commoditized. Fortunately, UI applications (synchronous, latency sensitive applications, modeling data input from the real world, making things pretty/unique) will likely always need people to write something kinda like code lol. However, I feel like they will likely have classes/experience with HCI/design, product management/MBAs, in the long-long run probably with law/accounting/medicine/architecture/etc. That said, there is just so much of the real world that needs to be better modeled digitally that everyone that learns coding-like skills will continue to be highly employable. At least, until the singularity. Then all bets are off.