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I wonder. Cost center development work seems most vulnerable to deskilling by low-code/no-code and offshoring through the increasing acceptance of remote work.
by closeparen 5y ago
I wonder. Cost center development work seems most vulnerable to deskilling by low-code/no-code and offshoring through the increasing acceptance of remote work. Using hipster languages can be silly in a lot of ways, but it at least communicates that a company is very developer centric.
- aynyc 5y agoEnterprises have been trying to outsource development for the last two decades and failed miserably. The low-code/no-code trend is mostly a bust like AI/ML. Chasing hipster languages is rat race. If you are strong in Java, with reasonable professional behavior and don't live in the middle of nowhere, you'll make decent money for a long time.
- closeparen 5y agoThey failed miserably at getting things done with remote workers, which is indeed difficult, but there's no longer any alternative.
- aynyc 5y agoYou confused remote workers with offshore outsourcing. There is a huge difference.
- closeparen 5y agoThe point of remote workers is it doesn't make a huge difference where they are.
- closeparen 5y agoI would genuinely like to know what you think makes remote workers in the same country so much more effective than remote workers in different countries. And how you explain the constant references to globally distributed teams in the remote-work literature (Basecamp, GitLab) if those are such different things.
- goodpoint 5y agoThe hipster SV startup asking developers to do hackathons on weekends is hardly more developer centric than the traditional company paying a ton of money to a contractor to work 40 hours a week on C++.