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I heard a story once about how the introduction of power tools was protested by the set builders of Hollywood (and probably Broadway) - they said, "now it takes

I heard a story once about how the introduction of power tools was protested by the set builders of Hollywood (and probably Broadway) - they said, "now it takes fewer people to build the same set! we'll lose jobs!" The reality turned out that people built bigger sets on the same budget, and people with smaller budgets could now build sets. A large part of the job of programming is automating away the job you're currently doing, so you don't have to do it again. This frees you up to do more, newer things. I suspect both with hold true for you. What you currently do will be wrapped in an automated layer, and you'll do something similar on a higher layer previously inaccessible.

ryankupyn 10y ago
Yeah, that's pretty much what's going to happen. My employer just acquired a rival that does exactly that, so now my entire division is gradually shifting to build on their work and automate more and more. The biggest change internally is what kind of grad degrees people get. 10-15 years ago everyone went for an MBA when they wanted to move up, now more people are getting their Stats PhDs, then coming back and applying their knowledge to problems that would have been the domain of B-Schoolers just a few years ago.