Reminds me of a disagreement with a friend when I was 12. I was learning machine code because eh? programming is the future?? He disagreed completely. He said y

Reminds me of a disagreement with a friend when I was 12. I was learning machine code because eh? programming is the future?? He disagreed completely. He said you want to be using software not writing it. Writing it is like making tools. Tools are things you use. A tool maker solves a very limited problem set and is always under instructions from those who need the tool. My counter argument was that I was making my own tools and modifying existing ones (which was normal/expected at the time) I make tools but I'm the user of my tools! He corrected predicted that each of those applications would have winning good-enough versions that everyone would use. He went on into technical drawing. Oddly the problem scope programmers run into seems much more diverse and we make lots of things just for fun while technical drawers are mostly tools marrying product designers to industries.