Ivan Turkovic in the article The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers (published January 22, 2026):

the fundamental challenge remains unchanged: translating human intent into correct, efficient, maintainable, secure software is hard. Not because the tools are inadequate, but because the problem is inherently complex.

These new genAI coding tools seem to work really well for people like me. Similarly I’ve had a lot of success with low code tools as being a sometimes pro-code developer helps understand the limitations and backround of what gets generation. Modularity also matters even in low code as maintainability needs to be taken k to account.