My wife had an uncle who has been programming a long time, and he tells of a time when he believed that languages like COBOL and FORTRAN IV would make programme

My wife had an uncle who has been programming a long time, and he tells of a time when he believed that languages like COBOL and FORTRAN IV would make programmers obsolete since now anybody could just tell the computer what they wanted it do and they didn't actually have know anything about computers or programming to do so. Turns out he was kind of right and kind of wrong. On the one hand most programmers today know virtually nothing about computers and programming in the sense that a programmer in early 60s knew computers and programming. Yet programmers today are more prolific and in demand than ever before. I suspect we'll see something similar play out.