[lukeramsden]

Learning to program does not equate to learning to architect and evolve over many years a non-trivial system, operate it, document it, train others on it, scale it, etc. - “unmotivated” is a bit reductive. In the same way I might enjoy some DIY here and there but don’t want to and shouldn’t be trusted to build new houses, the same goes for non-trivial systems - sometimes you really do just need professionals.

That’s not to say you can’t give areas with guardrails to non-software-engineering-professionals if you can teach them git.

[carapace]

> “unmotivated” is a bit reductive

Well, sure, it's under-specified, I said "unmotivated (for whatever reasons)", eh?

I agree with you. When it comes to programming computers it's one of the few areas where I am unabashedly elitist ( https://sforman.srht.site/AnyoneCanCode.html "For most people learning anything more complicated than Excel is counter-productive." )

My point is that it's not that hard to learn to program, not that it's easy to program well (it's not. I've been at it for over a quarter of a century and I'm still barely capable.)

My additional point is that the barrier to entry (other than apathy or disinterest) is the complexity (just to make a website you need to know three or four computer languages!?)

My third point is that that complexity is about to vanish in a haze of linear algebra and massive data (the computers can talk now.)