Historically a lot of progress was made in these areas and what they are able to do is amazing, but I dissagree that it is necessarily harder today. Many engin

Historically a lot of progress was made in these areas and what they are able to do is amazing, but I dissagree that it is necessarily harder today. Many engineers in all disciplines do things that are relatively easy and some of them also do novel things that are hard. I don't think that is different in software.