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It doesn’t mean it will not happen. For the past 20 years progress in IT was about making IT appear everywhere, that’s a breadth growth rather than depth. Before we need tools that allow someone to program in NLP we need the industry to be broadly used enough to actually have enough data to be manipulated by managers.

On top of this, the company I work for provides amazing tools for non-tech personnel: for example Looker is basically SQL for managers. It is also much more powerful that SQL: for example for simple GROUP BY queries it also provides the UI to access the underlying rows in each of the rows returned by GROUP BY.

You are missing a lot in the industry right now.



> It is also much more powerful that SQL

None of these are new in this decade for that matter. The point is : we are still waiting to see it reduce software engineer's demand overall.

Things are getting easier. Getting more adopted. Leading to increase in demand for software engineers rather than decrease.


Query By Example (QBE) is not new. You can do it in Access, ffs.




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