Software development, as we understand it today, is going away. Absolutely. Note, I didn't say software is going away, but the methodologies currently used to c

Software development, as we understand it today, is going away. Absolutely. Note, I didn't say software is going away, but the methodologies currently used to create software are. Look at every engineering and manufacturing discipline over the past 100 years - they are significantly different today than they were back then, so much so that yesteryear's practitioners would not recognize today's methodologies and processes. We're at a major inflection point, and those currently in the pipeline learning the old ways are going to be ill-served.