> Talk to any sufficiently experienced engineer and tell them they don't understand at "all levels". I only need to look at myself for that. I'm pretty experie

> Talk to any sufficiently experienced engineer and tell them they don't understand at "all levels". I only need to look at myself for that. I'm pretty experienced in some areas, but the time that a single person can understand it all within a lifetime has long passed. > The worry comes when all of that is devalued Not everything will be devalued, but values will definitely change when it doesn't take a software engineer to write a simple CRUD application anymore. The industrial revolution seems like a good comparison: There are still people manufacturing individual, highly customized items, whether for niche applications or for people that value the craftsmanship in and of itself. But most things that used to be made in workshops are now produced in factories, with orders of magnitudes fewer workers. > We're throwing away everything for these idiots who walk all over those who are scared of taking this situation into their own hands. Another way of looking at this is that a lot of people (not all) have much to gain by letting go of some (not all) low-level control and focusing on higher layers. And yes, letting to of habits and control can be pretty scary – speaking from lots of first-hand experience.