This reads like it’s bizarrely out of touch with reality. Or is that just me?
As others have pointed out, the desire to build things without coding knowledge has always been there, and there will always be a place for it. An ice cream shoppe should probably use Squarespace instead of hiring a coder for thousands more.
However, until we have sufficient AI, executives will always request features that can't be achieved with whatever no-code building blocks are available. Contrary to others, I do think there will come a day where the human computer programmer is completely obsolete, but we are definitely not there yet.
>Today’s new workers know how to dive into systems, pipe different programs together using no-code platforms
I was thinking, not the ones I know. Maybe they are out there somewhere? The only people I know who can dive into systems and pipe programs together are people with programing experience.
There are many situations where a non-engineer with some programming experience can very quickly string together a few "no-code" tools to build a workflow/tool that scratches 90-100% of their itch.
"Some programming experience" meaning: they understand basic IFTTT logic and can configure API access using a tutorial.
The piping of programs is now done by sync integrations built into the tools, third-party tools like Zapier, or other services that can map and standardize API output.