Meh, I am also old enough to have experienced what the GP post mentioned, and I remember also when Visual Basic 6 was released, a similar sentiment appeared:

Suddenly, every cousin 13 year old could implement apps for their Uncle's dental office, laboratory, parts shop billing, tourism office management, etc. Some people also believed that software developers would become irrelevant in couple of years.

For me as an old programmer, I am having A BLAST using these tools. I have used enough tools (TurboBasic, Rational Rose (model based development, ha!), NetBeans, Eclipse, VB6, BorlandC++ builder) to be able to identify their limits and work with them.

That's great! I am also having a blast, and trying hard to take advantage of the new capability while not turning into the programmer equivalent of the passengers of the BNL Axiom. We aren't the intended audience for this post.