Re: Seriously, are programmers that bad?
There is no money for workers doing this kind of job. So as the rewards are low, it does not attract talent that could score more doing something else.
Big corporations especially want to use free things - including labour. If you look at CEOs or shareholders, their biggest contribution are their contacts and money (likely from wealthy parents), not actual meaningful work.
In their interest is to keep engineering wages low, so that the influx of newcomers into "their" world is as low as possible and only those "accepted" can enter it.
So yeah, with things like "co-pilot" and "safe" languages the agenda is to make anyone being able to "code" - ideally accepting or rejecting the code proposed by the AI and get paid minimum wage (with benefits paid for by engineers caught by higher tax rates - again part of multi-faceted effort to ensure a worker will always be a worker and can't climb the class ladder).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
