>he made this prediction because he saw the rise of no-code tools replacing software developers
Given the way we had tremendously productive tools like Visual Basic 6 and Delphi, that seemed to be a reasonable interpretation.
But those tools gave way to C++ and all the .NET insanity. I don't know why someone would give up Delphi, which worked flawlessly and didn't generate any (as far as I can recall) re-only generated boilerplate, to C++ which was a mess, but it happened en masse.
Then most people abandoned personal computing, and the windows desktop for always internet connected pads and phones. Tools have gone severely downward in the past 2 decades as a result.
I suspect we'll get some really powerful AI tools, and go back to worrying about null pointers in a few years anyway.
Given the way we had tremendously productive tools like Visual Basic 6 and Delphi, that seemed to be a reasonable interpretation.
But those tools gave way to C++ and all the .NET insanity. I don't know why someone would give up Delphi, which worked flawlessly and didn't generate any (as far as I can recall) re-only generated boilerplate, to C++ which was a mess, but it happened en masse.
Then most people abandoned personal computing, and the windows desktop for always internet connected pads and phones. Tools have gone severely downward in the past 2 decades as a result.
I suspect we'll get some really powerful AI tools, and go back to worrying about null pointers in a few years anyway.