Yeah, Salesforce dangles that hook to sell to managers who dream of a day without developers, but it's not happening. Funny thing is, I think in the 80s, with

Yeah, Salesforce dangles that hook to sell to managers who dream of a day without developers, but it's not happening. Funny thing is, I think in the 80s, with computers like the Commodore 64 and BASIC, anyone with some aptitude really could learn to do some programming. You didn't have higher-level concepts or much abstraction, just global variables, loops, and screen manipulation. The average person couldn't do a lot, but you could have some fun making shapes move around the screen, or write a little program to catalog your albums or something. Ironically, as computers and languages have gotten more powerful, they've also gotten harder to program, requiring a more specialized sort of mind to understand what's going on with more abstractions packed into less code.