About 10 years ago a few friends of mine (mechanical engineers) were surprised that I was studying software development. They said something along the lines of

About 10 years ago a few friends of mine (mechanical engineers) were surprised that I was studying software development. They said something along the lines of “is there much left to do? we can just use existing systems to do everything we need right?” The misconception is that building systems to tackle new problems are easy and thus have been “commodified” meaning nobody needs to write code anymore. The reality is that building software is rarely as easy as configuring a UI. You end up needing text which represents logical rules and flows, you need version control see how the system changes, rollbacks… which means you need programmers Coding doesn’t disappear, it just moves up the levels of abstractions