> software development becomes a commodity and the job becomes something like a fast food job where practically any adult who wants it can do it

That will never happen. Sure, anyone can program something, but to make it professionally there is bar of quality and competition will push most people out. Similarly anyone can write, draw or sing but only a few do it well enough to be paid for it.

And I am old enough to see many tools that allow "anyone to program". They pop up whenever certain standards (like web) become popular, then programming goes in different direction and they vanish in irrelevance. Soon there will be a large set of skill on top of "using AI" and "chat, make me an app" will go out of the window as viable way to make something others want to use and pay for.

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coldtea 12 hours ago | parent [-]

>That will never happen. Sure, anyone can program something, but to make it professionally there is bar of quality

Ever seen most high profile apps in the last 10-15 years? Not to mention regular average apps, which still employ millions of people. Or most enterprise software.

Trust me, the "bar of quality" wont be the issue.

	▲	fiedzia 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Ever seen most high profile apps in the last 10-15 years? No, but the ones I am paying for are few and with rather solid development record. Looking at top android apps, we have some that have very high bar of engineering (firefox, google translate), some just useful dataset (cooking recipes), but again, even the simple ones outcompeted tons of alternatives. > most enterprise software I am not saying enterprise software is super complex, but it is very competitive domain.