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Another area where there's a glut of highly paid and semi-skilled workers is web developers. Whee!

• porpoisemonkey 10y ago
  > Another area where there's a glut of highly paid and semi-skilled workers is web developers. I'm not even sure that this stops at web development. It's my general feeling that in all software there's a small core of very talented developers that are pushing the boundaries of the technology and an army of semi-skilled developers that are building off of their labors and backfilling functionality using the patterns established by the leading developers. (Most notably in the "quality assurance" teams of some large software firms.) Over time I expect that artificial intelligence and more intelligent tooling will eliminate many of these "backfill" positions. I'm not sure what happens when this occurs as it would seem that survival of the fittest might leave many software developers unemployable (myself included).
  • Eridrus 10y ago
    To some extent, the idea of frameworks and open source components is pretty much automation targeting web developers. WYSIWIG dev tools are pretty much the end point to this, but they never let you connect to data, so maybe Tableu is essentially the WYSIWIG for now.