Programming is not a Super-Power

The author forget the value that programming in the small holds.

With few hundreds of lines of code, you can write a useful extension for firefox, or a usefull plugin for some content management system , or connect few API's data in a way that offers great value[1], or just massage some excel table and save tons of work, or build a simple but very valuable arduino project[2].

And the situation is just getting better with more powerful libraries.

[1]There's an application that just takes real-time data on when trees shed out leafs and shows it on a map. Really helpfull for people with allergies/asthma to certain kinds of trees , to plan their route.

[2]A group of girls in palestine(one of their relatives is blind) built a walking cane for the blind that detects obstacles using ultrasound and vibrates in response. This is an improvement to current walking canes.

Good programmers are just people who won a genetic lottery that gave them an above average short term memory.

Machine learning is just a fad.

Difficult to take the article seriously after that.