I find myself quite convinced of this today. I believe that, like the industrial revolution, there needs to be a reduction of time-consuming effort to make it happen.
My thoughts lead to thinking that machine-aided development will be a major step forward. Part of this I believe is discoverability in what we make. Perhaps another major step would be to reduce the time to express the intent in code.
Reduction of time-consuming effort is exactly one of the points I'm going for. It's necessary for a proper software future.
I considered machine-aided development, and it's definitely a very good potential future. In the context of the post, I see machine-aided or machine-driven development more akin to the 3D printing revolution going on now, where you don't need intricate knowledge of the component parts at all. I'll mention this in part 2 (starting to sound like I should add a part 3 too :p)
My thoughts lead to thinking that machine-aided development will be a major step forward. Part of this I believe is discoverability in what we make. Perhaps another major step would be to reduce the time to express the intent in code.