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Did the need for programmers dry up when off the shelf operating systems became mainstream, or when most of us started writing in higher level languages instead
by learc83 10y ago
Did the need for programmers dry up when off the shelf operating systems became mainstream, or when most of us started writing in higher level languages instead of assembly?
Software just gets more complex and expands in scope when we can build on top of new abstractions. Each time this has happened we've ended up with more programming jobs not fewer.
- Hydraulix989 10y agoEver heard a coder jokingly call themselves a "professional Googler" or "StackOverflow copy&paster"? Why is it so unreasonable to think that some of these very real "trivialities" can't be automated in some way?
- learc83 10y ago>Ever heard a coder jokingly call themselves a "professional Googler" or "StackOverflow copy&paster"? It's just that--a joke. Any employed programmer who copy and pastes any significant amount of code from stack overflow is doing more harm than good. And googling a problem, looking at examples and modifying them to solve your particular problem is certainly not trivial. When AI can do that for arbitrarily complex problems, we have a lot more to worry about than out of work programmers.