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That's because our tools are not good enough so what we lack in tools we compensate by individual developer quality. I spend a lot of time within WordPress eco
by airnomad 7y ago
That's because our tools are not good enough so what we lack in tools we compensate by individual developer quality.
I spend a lot of time within WordPress ecosystem and I've seen people coming to me with 20K products shops they've built and maintain without a single line of code written.
I've seen companies operating online without having any developments either on contract or in house.
Because for certain simpler scenarios, there's UI based tools you can run your business on.
Sure they come to me because eventually they need something they can't do with tools they use but those are becoming more and more high level jobs.
Web development is pretty much figured out problem. You have legions of repleacable low value developers churning out pages and you have subset of highly paid specialists who can do more advanced things.
But those gazillions web pages are doing their job, they drive sales, improving information quality etc. so I could say digital workers are factory workers of our time.
On certain jobs line is blurry - designers can do basic WordPress but they also can set up MailChimp because machine needs to be humming.
- bluejellybean 7y agoPerhaps we are arguing different things. If by developer you are referring specifically to a web-developer, sure they are akin to the a factory worker in that they are, by in large, on the way out. I am arguing the more broad sense of developer as being a substitute for computer programmer.