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I worked in one company where a brilliant (and, imho, sociopathic) programmer had achieved technical dominance ... he was irreplaceable, his code inscrutable, with very few comments ... and was despised by his peers, and considered a "golden goose" by company management. The company was acquired, the "golden goose" cashed in his stock, and left. Six months later the acquiring company sold off the acquired company for a fraction of what they paid for it.
My take-away, as an observer and participant, was that companies exist to make money, and individuals pursue their own interests. And, that buyers should do due diligence. Ho-hum.
The idea that companies should be "happy families" where individual differences in ability and knowledge never over-shadow a warm sense of "collectivity" ... and, that increases profitability ... is a nice fantasy.
Of course, I am speaking in extreme terms, here, to make a point (hopefully) about the millennial shift in expectations of "workplace experience," and "work-culture."
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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The cost of protecting applications from cyberattacks is climbing fast. So, it's time for business units to help cover the pricetag. But your competitors will do this for half the price
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Computer code. It will become the Ancient Greek of the late 21st century. "By the beard of Zeus!"
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Sorry but... bullshxxx
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Why is it BS?
Once upon a time, steam was the thing. If you knew how to make a steam-engine, the sky was the limit.
If you know how to make a steam engine these days, you're just a clever guy with an interesting hobby.
Tech is ephemeral - things don't stand still.
My grandfather fixed wirelesses, that skill would be no use to me. I write code, that skill will be no use to my grandchildren.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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I can give you that the languages might get obsolete, but the ability "code" is not only about the language you are using. And that is what I say it won't get obsolete
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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It's simply a matter of time before all communication with machines is performed in native languages such as English. Once we can speak to computers in that way, there will be no point whatsoever in communicating via a coded medium.
People may still program computers but they will not do so by code.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Learning to code taught me problem solving and problems will always need to be fixed; AI or not.
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Learning to code in APL will eventually will be as readable as Ancient Greek.
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What do you mean, "eventually"? It's already the premier write-only language.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I know someone who proved that he is able to read APL.
A bit of a useless skill, but a skill nonetheless.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Lawmakers have been examining whether so-called loot boxes should be subject to the same rules as casinos. Daddy needs a new Vorpal Sword!
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It's Vorpal Blade! 
(Read your Jabberwocky!)
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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If the definition of gambling is buying something not knowing what you are going to get, then lets go after:
Pokemon cards
Engagement Ring sellers(will she say yes, or will she say no?)
"Fresh" produce at the grocery store.
feel free to add to that list...
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j snooze wrote: If the definition of gambling is buying something not knowing what you are going to get
Marriage. Well, I guess I'd phrase it "buying into something" unless you peruse those Russian bride sites. But "engagement ring" fits the original phrasing. 
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Through a few clever molecular hacks, researchers at Columbia University Medical Center have converted a natural bacterial immune system into a microscopic data recorder, laying the groundwork for a new class of technologies that use bacterial cells for everything from disease diagnosis to environmental monitoring. Does it work in my 8-track?
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Right now the test is only in beta-max, and if that doesn't work you can cassette good-bye.
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Different types of alcoholic drink change and shape your mood in different ways, says a study into drinking and emotions. Friday night in The Lounge, explained
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I suspect they have their cause and effect backward.
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It has been exactly two months since the release of Java 9, so as per the new schedule, the next release of Java is now only four months away. Coming to a computer near you, sometime in the next decade or so
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US academics find words such as ‘airlock’ and ‘antigravity’ are cues for test subjects to assume a story isn’t worth a careful read. "Ninety percent of everything is crap"
Technically not in our bailiwick, but I figure the Venn diagram of SF and devs has enough overlap. Or maybe it's just me.
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Passed this along to some of my SF-writing friends.
Can't wait to hear from them.
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Can the explosion be seen from Low Earth Orbit?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I note you had to include an emoji because the use of sci-fi terminology meant that your readers would be unable to infer the emotional reaction intended.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Perhaps they should test the percentage of subjects that find that the phrase 'US academics' is a cue to assume that an article is nonsense.
(They can then go on to test similar phrase for other nationalities. That should keep them out of mischief for a while.)
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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