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There's another way of reading it, which is that code generation will become sufficiently advanced that a huge number of the high-paying software engineering jo
by nmrm2 11y ago
There's another way of reading it, which is that code generation will become sufficiently advanced that a huge number of the high-paying software engineering jobs that exist today become things that people can do with very little training.
It's not so much that you can take informal descriptions and turn them into software, but more that the software can be built by anyone with a few months of training, thus driving down salaries to a point where mere coding is no longer a white collar job.
That doesn't seem impossible, but the reason for its unliklihood is far more subtle.
- Kurimo 11y agoThis is always an argument in tech. But as has been stated by folks before the easier coding gets, the more ambitious and complex the tasks we attempt to accomplish with it. So the difficulty at the top end never gets any easier just because the bottom end does.
- nmrm2 11y agoExactly right. And that's more obvious on the web than anywhere else. My point was just that seeing this is a lot more subtle -- it's not a purely technical observation, but also contains a social/economic component.
- madelinecameron 11y ago>So the difficulty at the top end never gets any easier just because the bottom end does. Personally, I think the end of construction came after the lever and fulcrum were invented. After humans didn't have to exert effort to build things, construction became a thing of the past... Oh wait.