Software productivity, though hard to objectively measure, probably gone up quite a few magnitudes. People used to program by flipping switches or punching hol

Software productivity, though hard to objectively measure, probably gone up quite a few magnitudes. People used to program by flipping switches or punching holes in punch cards. We made assembly languages, higher level languages, optimizing compilers, libraries of commonly used code, and so on. There is presumably some tipping point where we become so productive that fewer people are needed. It hasn't happened yet, and there's no good way to know if and when it will happen.