Hm... I think I get what Mr. Joshi is saying, but the headline clashes with the notion that the essence of what we do is automation, and that includes automating the automation.

This at first blush smells like "Don't write code that writes code," which... Some of the most useful tools I've ever written are macros to automate patterns in code, and I know that's not what he means.

Perhaps a better way to say it is "Automating writing software doesn't remove the need to understand it?"

> I think I get what Mr. Fowler is saying

Martin Fowler isn't the author, though. The author is Unmesh Joshi.