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It is really about teaching Bloomberg readers how to commoditize expensive programmers.

Business has been trying to do that for 50 years, but it doesn't really work because the scope of software systems too broad and varied. In a way software is an anti-commodity in its diversity. As much as "real" engineers rightfully decry software as easy and less rigorous than physical engineering disciplines, at the same time, the potential scope of software is greater than physics itself—it is math incarnate. The only way to commodify programmers would be to willingly limit software's scope to some established domain that is well understood by the powers that be.

I don't see one article, no matter how brilliant, providing the tools make any meaningful progress on that little management wet dream.

The facts have never gotten in the way of cost cutting, outsourcing, offshoring...

Perhaps not, but they have definitely gotten in the way of those attempts succeeding.

> it is math incarnate.

I learned how to write functions and subroutines a long time before learning algebra. The way that functions were taught in my math class were so confusing. Eventually I realized they were the same as what I learned coding.

And that is bad why?

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