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Creativity in arts and creativity in engineering and other skilled labour are vastly different. You don't need to be a Botticelli programmer to provide value t
by raquo 8y ago
Creativity in arts and creativity in engineering and other skilled labour are vastly different.
You don't need to be a Botticelli programmer to provide value to your employer because being famous or unique is not how programmers provide value. Programmers are paid for solving business problems. The variability of that is not going to dramatically increase due to automation.
Even today you can tell that mediocre programmers are earning good wages while mediocre painters / sculptors / actors are starving. It is not because they have been automated.
- TomMarius 8y ago> Even today you can tell that mediocre programmers are earning good wages Today mediocre programmers still provide value, that's because there are not yet good enough tools that would make these developers obsolete. These tools are coming within the next 10 years.
- Supernaut 8y agoSpeaking as a competent but unexceptional programmer, I find this an alarming claim. Have you any links to worthwhile articles/research on this topic? If I really am going to be thrown on the developer scrapheap, I guess I should start thinking now about how I'm going to keep a roof over my kids' heads.
- raquo 8y agoI'll believe it when I see it. So far none of the website builders, low code platforms, rapid app development tools, etc. made a dent, and not for lack of trying.