For newly developed software, most of it these days is SaaS. I think this is not stressed enough as the major architectural chokepoint.

For decade-old accumulating code, IMO, AI may offer solutions. Many will sneer that AI is an even worse epitome of the opaqueness that is our problem in the first place. Agreed! maybe we can make it less so?

The real incoming disaster, I believe, is that we are pushing tens of billions into developing and marketing new immature computing paradigms like AR/VR/IVA that will put our "information machines" exponentially more behind an impenetrable wall.

But do Hackers truly believe most people should be code-literate? The irony is that, for example, a lot of them would not even consider the idea of cooking their own food (let alone grow it).