Multiplied by the population of Earth, that's still a huge number of people.
What I was trying to say is that there are lot of problems that are already solved and new generations can build on top of that.
There are always going to be ever more complicated problems and ever-expanding areas, but in many areas we've pretty much figured things out so people can just use the solutions in their domain specific problems without having to re-implement them.
I'm talking about open source libraries, higher-level programming languages and even visual programming which can be used by people to write programs without needing to understand the deeper aspects of things.
Doctors visualising data, artists making interactive art or chaining visual effects, lawyers querying databases - things you needed to hire programmers for will be done by people who aren't doing this full time, but can do it if required.
It's definitely seems true. I think it would be even more powerful. remember reading about nutonian which enabled a doctor to build a machine learning model to differentiate between kids who needed surgery and who did not.
And on the other hand ,similar capability, i.e. machine learning is being used by the researchers to crack TOR mostly just by feeding data to the algorithm.
So basically ,strong tools will be available to everybody, greatly equalizing programmers and non=programmers.
What I was trying to say is that there are lot of problems that are already solved and new generations can build on top of that. There are always going to be ever more complicated problems and ever-expanding areas, but in many areas we've pretty much figured things out so people can just use the solutions in their domain specific problems without having to re-implement them. I'm talking about open source libraries, higher-level programming languages and even visual programming which can be used by people to write programs without needing to understand the deeper aspects of things.
Doctors visualising data, artists making interactive art or chaining visual effects, lawyers querying databases - things you needed to hire programmers for will be done by people who aren't doing this full time, but can do it if required.