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The expectation was low/no code tools would put many devs out of work and it would only be a niche job. The idea that we would have a decade+ labor shortage was
by spamizbad 5y ago
The expectation was low/no code tools would put many devs out of work and it would only be a niche job. The idea that we would have a decade+ labor shortage was unheard of until the craziness of the dotcom bubble (which then popped and people moved to assuming dev work would be permanently outsourced like textiles and never coming back due to high US labor costs)
- astrange 5y agoPeople seem to be in a permanent state of lump-of-labor fallacy and not understanding comparative advantage. The current one is thinking we'll run out of jobs because of AI. (Their scenarios seem to end up with a few rich business guy types owning all the AIs and trading with each other while the rest of the world is somehow unemployed - which I'm pretty sure was the plot of Atlas Shrugged.)