> People would have said the same about graphing calculators or calculators before that. Socrates said the same thing about the written word.

Well, we still make people calculate manually for many years, and we still make people listen to lectures instead of just reading.

But will we still have people to go through years of manual coding? I guess in the future we will force them, at least if we want to keep people competent, just like the other things you mentioned. Currently you do that on the job, in the future people wont do that on the job so they will be expected to do it as a part of their education.