Comment by thisgetsit

The syntactic representation will become that. End of day it's just math ops, state sync of memory and display. Even semantic objects like an OSs protected memory is a special case of access control that can be mathematically computed around. There is nothing important about special semantics.

The user experience will be less constrained as the self arrangement of pixels improves and users do not run into designer constraints, usually due to lack of granularity some button widget or layout framework is capable of.

"Artisanal" software engineers probably never were their own self selected identity.

Have been writing code since the late 80s, when Windows and commercial Unix were too expansive and we all wrote shoddy but functional kernels. Who does that now? Most gigs these days are glue code to fetch/cache deps and template concrete config values for frameworks. Artisanal SaaS configuration is not artisanal software engineering.

And because software engineers were their own worst enemy the last decade; living big as they ate others jobs and industries; hate for the industry has gone mainstream. Something politicians have to react to. Non-SWEs don't want to pay middle men to use their property. GenAI can get them to that place.

As an art teacher once said; making things for money is not the practice of a craft. It's just capitalism. Anyone building SaaS apps through contemporary methods is a Subway sandwich artist, not the old timey well rounded farmer, hunter, who also bakes bread.