The future of software? Imagine a bot, stamping on a human face – forever

Automation is driving the next wave of commoditization, threatening to replace skilled workers

Part 1  As we have said before, the software industry has a decades-long history of cost-cutting, commoditization, and a successful sales model of "pile 'em high, sell 'em cheap." This has worrying consequences if your skill set is the next one to be commoditized. But there may be ways out of this narrowing commercial bottleneck.…