"But now the tooling is so good and the competition so fierce that the real question now is not how but what to program. For that, it's essential to see things

"But now the tooling is so good and the competition so fierce that the real question now is not how but what to program. For that, it's essential to see things through the eye of users, so you can see the value to them." It's always been that way. e.g. Infamous HN Dropbox post.