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> Software development (...) becomes a menial job with average pay. If I had a cent for every time I heard this in the past 25 years... it started with the 4GL
by haspok 6y ago
> Software development (...) becomes a menial job with average pay.
If I had a cent for every time I heard this in the past 25 years... it started with the 4GL craze, at least that's when I started. And look where we are now.
The truth is that software development is an inherently complex process. You can automate the menial parts of it (and you probably should), but can never tackle the core of its complexity. Writing performant programs is hard and always will be. Writing correct concurrent programs is hard and always will be. Constructing easily understandable and refactorable business logic implementations is hard and always will be. And there is no silver bullet.
- WJW 6y agoThat is also true of automaking though. There are some parts that are just hard and can't be automated away. The argument GP made was that someone in the EU can write correct concurrent programs for ~60k/year (and feel they are makng great money) instead of the 100k+ you need to pay someone in the US. Software jobs are even easier to offshore than car manufacturing plants.