> It's clear that we have too much grunt work Yes, architecture, medicine and metallurgy have been improved for millenniums. Next to that, IT is a baby that ca

> It's clear that we have too much grunt work Yes, architecture, medicine and metallurgy have been improved for millenniums. Next to that, IT is a baby that can barely walk. Of course we have too much grunt work. But also because every time we remove grunt work, the customer expectation increase, the market adapts, and now you have to use new tools that are productive enough to do what the users want with the resource they are willing to pay. So you don't have to hand write assembly but you do have to have an app that works on 16 screens ratios. You have amazing databases ready to handle your data, but you should update the UI live. > We continue to narrow the path to get experience as an engineer. Like in most industries, we are starting to move from "everyone needs to be an experts" to "90% of the daily tasks really just need good technicians". That's fine. That's how it is supposed to be. At some point only experts could duplicate your house keys. Now you have convenience key stores everywhere. We are on the right track. Next stop, the equivalent of residential building codes, but for public facing apps. Because IT is so new and can be done in your garage, we thought it was special. It was not.