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As you pointed out CS was once secretarial work. But what constituted CS also underwent a transformation during that time period. No one was muscled out so much
by Dracophoenix 5y ago
As you pointed out CS was once secretarial work. But what constituted CS also underwent a transformation during that time period. No one was muscled out so much as barriers to entry broke down thanks to market forces.
Here's a comment I wrote in response to a similar point addressing the topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26767280 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26767280
- munk-a 5y agoI am a programmer like my mother before me - but while I've had it easy working in high level language like C++ and PHP she worked in binary and, only toward the end of her career assembler. She made banks work using nothing but low level machine instructions which far exceeds the rudimentary stuff I'm doing today. Eventually she graduated up to management and project planning, but this was back in the day where individual contributors never made much money directly - if you wanted to keep getting raises you had to career track switch to management. I don't disagree that programming itself did significantly shift, but it's been perpetually getting easier, not more difficult, to work professionally at.