Will programming still be a high demand skill in the future?
There is a huge deficit of talent in the programming space. Everyone is complaining about this. But will this be the case in the close future?
Let's take a look at history: A couple hundred years ago, only the cities that have a printing machine were able to print newspapers. As the machines got cheaper to be produced, more and more cities could afford to buy one and print newspapers. Even the small ones.
20 years ago, if you had an idea for a movie, you had to pitch to several studios to have it done. You had to pass some gatekeepers. Today, you have the technology in your pocket to hit the record button and upload it for free on Youtube. If the idea relates to enough people, you have an audience and you can start a video show.
So... what's the deal with programming? Well... 15 years ago you had to pay a smart kid or an agency to have a website build. You had to pay thousands for an ERP and sometimes you had to hire programmers to develop inside. Today, you have no-code tools like wordpress, webflow, carrd that can help you go from idea to mvp in hours. It's just a matter of time until no-code movement will have enough traction that will make possible the development of heavy complex enterprise software without writing a line of code. See what Zapier it's doing in the integration segment.
This is just the beginning.
I truly believe that most of the programmer jobs will become redundant in 5 to 10 years. Not all of them. We will software engineers to build architecture for the software of the future. We will still need business analysts to translate requirements into specifications. But once the picture is drawn, from specs to software timeframe will be way smaller and a lot more people will be able to do this, not only programmers.
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5 年Looking from outside in, this movement makes total sense. However, if you ask anyone in the industry they will widely disagree and not just because "our jobs are in danger". If you have ever build a product and take it to market you will understand it's life cycle. Using "no-code" to launch MVPs prove theories? Sure... and a lot of companies are currently doing that, and have been for a few years now. Going to market with a "no-code" system? Almost never happens, your dependency will be your major competitor.? For simple tasks such as building a wedding website, a presentation page for your families wine business, sure go ahead and use whats on the market. But the majority of developers, they will often move from such gigs as soon as possible and go into bigger companies building greenfield projects. There will always be need for innovation in this space.? That's my 0.02$ from working in this space for the past 5 years.?
Follow your passion ????
5 年Totally agree with this statement.
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5 年thanks for the mention Alexandru!