I think you are right by saying "This doesn't mean CS is dead.", but I think for a lot more reasons than those that have been mentioned here. First of all that fact, that these "packadges" are available to anyone the problems that companies are confronted with are a lot more complicated then they where 10 years ago. To solve those problems you need a good education in all different kinds of CS - simple programming was never and will never be the only part of CS ! We have accomplished to solve some more or less trivial problems and provide anybody with this solution BUT now we can try to solve much more complex things with computers. Not only Newton said: "We are standing on the shoulder of giants!" Another reason why education is importand is, that all these systems need to be maintained, updated, expanded... You need to know one or two things about CS to do that aswell. I have seen how much CS and physics you need to create a "simple" component control in an assembly line in the car industrie - without CS (computer vision in particular) you wouldn't be able to ! So the more available Software solutions will be, the more specialized you need to be to solve new problems. I think this conclusion "CS is dead!" is simply shortsighted and poorly read up on.