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Personally I think that this entire sector is due for a reduction. Companies like Facebook or Amazon or Google or just soaking up employees to work on things th
by throwawaysea 7y ago
Personally I think that this entire sector is due for a reduction. Companies like Facebook or Amazon or Google or just soaking up employees to work on things that don’t really matter. Once they figure that out and manage more efficiently, there will be layoffs followed by the inevitable commodification of CS talent. This field isn’t special, it’s like any other field that went through a boom phase and a later regression to an equilibrium point.
Soon everyone in every role/industry will have rudimentary programming skills and use them on top of safe platforms that don’t needtremendous specialization. It’ll stop being a differentiator and it’ll be more like a basic qualification.
- standardUser 7y ago"Soon everyone in every role/industry will have rudimentary programming skills" I'm completely baffled as to where all of today's workers in their 20's, 30's and 40's, almost none of whom have any programming skills whatsoever, are going to learn programming skills in this "soon" timeframe.
- uwuhn 7y agoAmericans won't, but immigrants will.
- torgian 7y agoImmigrants who study CS, yes. I live and been to countries where these immigrants come from. I don't think Americans would have anything to worry about if they stay competitive and take time to specialize. Your regular coding guys might get burnt after the next recession though.
- uwuhn 7y agoIran, China, and CIS countries are the ones I have in mind. Which ones are you thinking of?
- throwawaysea 7y agoI was deliberately vague. I don’t think the existing workers will pick up those skills but they will become increasingly unemployable if they do not.