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I suspect that more people will be writing software as part of their job. They just won't call themselves developers. As the underlying software becomes more po

I suspect that more people will be writing software as part of their job. They just won't call themselves developers. As the underlying software becomes more powerful (I'm thinking of Microsoft's recent demo of AI writing software) you need to be less skilled to build something we consider a complex app in the current time, relatively easily. Many professional developers will find them selves migrating to solving harder more advanced problems.

chii 6y ago
> Many professional developers will find them selves migrating to solving harder more advanced problems it may be wishful thinking that this is gonna just happen without major investment from some sort of entity for those developers. And i would also argue that advanced problems are more fewer and far between than "standard" problems being solved today by the majority of developers. History has shown that displaced workers don't get to re-educate for free. Either the workers themselves will have to pay for such re-education (or advance their existing education to higher level, and thus able to do a more difficult job that hasn't been "automated" or trivialized via a tool), or the gov't pays to mass-educate. If you currently work for a big-tech, and enjoy a high salary, it would be very prudent to try to invest your salary as much as possible to build a future stream of income for protection, for the eventual scenario where you are made redundant due to advances.
- sumanthvepa 6y ago
  > If you currently work for a big-tech, and enjoy a high salary, it would be very prudent to try to invest your salary as much as possible to build a future stream of income for protection, for the eventual scenario where you are made redundant due to advances. Good advice. That has always been true for programmers. We constantly have to invest in learning new kinds of things.
- sokoloff 6y ago
  There are benefits to saving for a future income stream that apply even if you’re never made redundant.

chii 6y ago

> Many professional developers will find them selves migrating to solving harder more advanced problems it may be wishful thinking that this is gonna just happen without major investment from some sort of entity for those developers. And i would also argue that advanced problems are more fewer and far between than "standard" problems being solved today by the majority of developers. History has shown that displaced workers don't get to re-educate for free. Either the workers themselves will have to pay for such re-education (or advance their existing education to higher level, and thus able to do a more difficult job that hasn't been "automated" or trivialized via a tool), or the gov't pays to mass-educate. If you currently work for a big-tech, and enjoy a high salary, it would be very prudent to try to invest your salary as much as possible to build a future stream of income for protection, for the eventual scenario where you are made redundant due to advances.

sumanthvepa 6y ago
> If you currently work for a big-tech, and enjoy a high salary, it would be very prudent to try to invest your salary as much as possible to build a future stream of income for protection, for the eventual scenario where you are made redundant due to advances. Good advice. That has always been true for programmers. We constantly have to invest in learning new kinds of things.
sokoloff 6y ago
There are benefits to saving for a future income stream that apply even if you’re never made redundant.