This the the normal progress Brooks wrote about. Yes, we have things that have made our lives better or allowed us to make the things about programming that are

This the the normal progress Brooks wrote about. Yes, we have things that have made our lives better or allowed us to make the things about programming that are accidentally hard, easier. The no silver bullets means that there is no magic that is going to make all parts of software development easy or instant. Some parts of creating software is still hard and might very well always be hard. Getting good requirements is one of those things that has been hard, still is hard, and might be hard for as long as we are building software.