For some reason programming is not getting any easier, I can even make an argument its getting worse despite all the improved tooling and andragogy investments

For some reason programming is not getting any easier, I can even make an argument its getting worse despite all the improved tooling and andragogy investments we have done. Programming is in some sort of local minimum and we keep going in circles. Few years ago I watched this talk by Gerald Sussman: "We really don't know how to compute" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB5TrK7A4pI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB5TrK7A4pI and it made me question my views on what I think programming is. I dont know if its because people are afraid to try new things, or there is no funding to try new things, we are kind of stuck. People thinking "don't reinvent the wheel" and for some reason think we have built a wheel (as Casey Muratori says: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQeqsn7JJWA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQeqsn7JJWA). We have a square at best. There are so many problems in the world, and a lot of them need robust and resilient programs to be solved, e.g. self cleaning public toilets or worm farm that you feed bio garbage and it produces protein flour. The challenge is exactly the same as it was 80 years ago, manage complexity in chaotic and emergent systems: chaos, complexity and entropy as the poet said. And to be honest, I think we have gotten worse at managing all of those, most bugs that we encounter now is like a murder mystery from Detective Conan and it requires Shinichi Kudo level of deductive reasoning to figure out what is going on. Programming will remain hard if you keep thinking it is just a translation problem from a "business requirement" to a "computer language".