To me these sound more like complaining that modern activities do not satisfy ancient human instincts well (mixed with legitimate criticism of paperclip-optimizing). Humanity is making something new with its whole way of life, figuring it out as it goes, so of course the old things don't fit, and we can't yet change them.
Ted did go off to live in the woods, the ancient natural environment, so I shouldn't be surprised.
I've seen a lot of guys talking about how some flavor of visual programming (the flavor they're developing) is the future, and those typewriters that everyone uses are the stone age of human-machine interfacing. They clearly don't want to write code quickly. Keyboards are good enough, and better for experts. There are pros and cons to both point-and-click and move-finger-and-press flavors of interfaces, so in the long term, I can see both becoming usable to view and write the same code. But really, that's superficial.
Things will become easier to use, architectures will become better thought out, and integration of technologies will become tighter. Maybe speech-to-text (or thoughts-to-text) with eyetracking will become all the rage for writing code with a new-age Vim, I don't know. There will probably be newer better programming languages, and possibly AI-based tools for converting between languages.
My prediction is about more and more choices being deferred to the computer and to runtime. Having both human-written code and learned portion of code will just be a normal thing. Programs will be able to change without humans having to do anything, though only in ways explicitly programmed in by humans. Researchers will research more and better ways to write down the computer-usable everythings that replace the old somethings, and it will slowly trickle down to other people's cultures. Eventually, slowly, we'll figure out how to make every part about software automatically learnable end-to-end, including learning, and then we'll say "we are singularity now, boys" and "fuck, go back" then repeat.
Ted did go off to live in the woods, the ancient natural environment, so I shouldn't be surprised.