I don't think the guy mentioned it that sense either.
The areas that you mention only have a high barrier to entry because there is no bulk job market in those areas, plus no one has yet decided to write a 'x for dummies' book in it for the exact very same reasons.
There are more websites written everyday than kernels.
Web development isn't particularly easy, but has been made easier because there is demand for it that way!!
Let say you have a markup language. The language implements every kernel feature known to mankind. Now all you need to do to get your very personalized kernel is specify the interplay of the features though the markup. Lets say such language also keeps updated with all latest developments in Kernel development field. Over time you see, even the most noob guy producing their own framework to do a range of kernel work.
Kernel development will look pretty much like producing a HTML page. And you will have a dummies book for it.
This is kernel development would look if there were millions of jobs worldwide for it.
You make an interesting point about abstractions and the march of technology. As technology progresses, difficult and complicated tasks of yesterday become abstracted away and become more accessible to lesser trained people. C followed by Java allows MOST programmers to not bother with understanding assembly, same with web frameworks, and i can see how it would be possible to implement a markup language that generates custom kernels. I can also see how within the next few years, we will certainly have easy to use machine learning libraries (there are already many good ones today) that bring the power of ML systems to programmers not trained in statistics and linear algebra.
That makes me wonder what kind of technical skills have long lifetimes, valuable in the real world (as opposed to merely being technically interesting), and are difficult enough to acquire that one doesn't have to worry about competition against a low-paid worker army....
The areas that you mention only have a high barrier to entry because there is no bulk job market in those areas, plus no one has yet decided to write a 'x for dummies' book in it for the exact very same reasons.
There are more websites written everyday than kernels.
Web development isn't particularly easy, but has been made easier because there is demand for it that way!!
Let say you have a markup language. The language implements every kernel feature known to mankind. Now all you need to do to get your very personalized kernel is specify the interplay of the features though the markup. Lets say such language also keeps updated with all latest developments in Kernel development field. Over time you see, even the most noob guy producing their own framework to do a range of kernel work.
Kernel development will look pretty much like producing a HTML page. And you will have a dummies book for it.
This is kernel development would look if there were millions of jobs worldwide for it.
You could apply the same analogy for anything.