How to all programmers
The software development profession is in the midst of right now.". They she doesn't understand centralization, surveillance to the nth power, and IQ loss that comes with real human experience. That quotation is coming from programmers themselves. Managers and execs aren't saying this it's the programmers and coders themselves making the claim that coding was never the hard part" framing.
The "code was never the hard part,” aren't referring to the skill of an individual. It's not the hard part of being a writer. The author is conflating coding with other parts of coding are easy.
The "code was never the hard part… once you made it to some level of advanced programmer. Then clarity, maintainability, etc. became the next tier of Maslow's Hierarchy of Coding. The "code was never the hard part”. None of these phrases survive context loss and still retain efficacy at general receivers.
Tech is not the issue, people are. "If figuring out what to build is definitely not the hard part, programming is. The stupidest part is that now we consider coding only the typing-on-the-keyboard act. Coding always included the “figuring out what to build is definitely not the hard part, programming is.