> but are we sleepwalking into a future where no one knows the basics? Maybe the basics are just being redefined. Perhaps there are some irreducible concepts

> but are we sleepwalking into a future where no one knows the basics? Maybe the basics are just being redefined. Perhaps there are some irreducible concepts to which programming can be reduced. Maybe the programmers of the future need only know those concepts and not anything at all about code. In science fiction, in the far future, people just tell computers what to do and they do it. Presumably, these computers were built by humans at some point but were able to improve themselves. And that was the end of the need for programmers. Maybe we just need to move the ball down the field just far enough for the programmers of today to unburden the people of tomorrow from needing to learn how to code at all.