No. The developer's interests (able to do more stuff more easily) and management's interests (making developers commodities instead of highly skilled workers) a

No. The developer's interests (able to do more stuff more easily) and management's interests (making developers commodities instead of highly skilled workers) are emphatically not the same; that's a major part of the article's point. (Unless you're a developer that owns your own company so you are management--which is not the situation the article is talking about.)