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Death notice: Moore's Law. 19 April 1965 – 2 January 2018

veti Silver badge

The slowdown happened because the IT industry has grown far faster than the ability to train competent software engineers.

Or to put it another way: "Competent software engineers have repeatedly failed to deliver on their promises to create tools that would put the great majority of computing tasks within reach of any reasonably educated layperson."

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