Economics will dictate that working bespoke on coding will simply not be profitable anymore. Great article but there is no stopping this trend at this rate.
"Hopefully, many developers will slowly rediscover their love for programming when they can apply it to problems that actually interest and challenge them"
Simply to not understand this dynamic. The economics will dictate what will happen and NOT much else.
> There'd be middling salaries for developers across the country, and probably actually the bulk of the work would actually happen in say latvia or laos
Yes that's what happened and it's called offshoring. If you're in the US or Europe it happened to manufacturing too. It's in China for economic reasons. That doesn't mean there isn't any manufacturing going on in your country.