The arguments are flawed and taken very lightly. One could argue the exact opposite: Engineers are needed now more than ever. A skilled engineer (what does thi

The arguments are flawed and taken very lightly. One could argue the exact opposite: Engineers are needed now more than ever. A skilled engineer (what does this even mean in a context so wide?!) can run a website like PinBoard, serving millions of users, from the a jungle in Thailand, on a crappy 56k using a 250 USD ChromeBook. Of course it's possible but how many people do actually manage to do it successfully? And while having AWS, Github and you-name-it makes this possible (scaling was the big issue apparently), AWS and Github can not be run by a lonely engineer, you need an army of them.