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> I see a future where a developer is paid the salary of a retail cashier and it scares me.

The only way that will happen is if Point-of-Sale systems become so complex that a developer has to run them, or development becomes as easy as punching buttons on a Point-of-Sale system.

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The difficulty of development doesn't have to change, and I'm not saying it will, but the number of people who know how to program will increase.

That concerns me as well. If you'd like some consolation, make a job post and interview "senior software engineers" sometime. Try fizzbuzz as a first question (yes, even in 2017).

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