The future of Software Engineering and Programming

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I foresee a time when American programmers who are rank-and-file Visual Basic drones creating database apps and so forth will be unemployable at the wages they demand, and that American software engineers will be more focused on algorithmically complex work that requires more than fancy scripting skills.

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<p>True, but the question is, how many of these jobs requiring algorithmically complex work will be available, and what salaries will they pay? Furthermore, what is the entry-level path to getting one of those jobs? For that matter, plenty of non-American programmers can do algorithmically complex work at least as well as American programmers.</p>