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I read an article some time ago with the reasoning that went like this: "The goal of software development is to automate things. So, in principle, with time th
by 988747 4y ago
I read an article some time ago with the reasoning that went like this:
"The goal of software development is to automate things. So, in principle, with time there should be less demand for software development skills because most of the hard work has already been done, and we have better, more high level tools. The only reason we see demand for software developers growing is because we let the bad developers in :) Bad developer can easily generate 2 FTEs per year, by introducing subtle bugs in code that someone has to find and fix. "
Anyone here has the actual source ?
- whimsicalism 4y agoThere's a much more obvious resolution to this problem that applies to the economy writ large.
- cs137 4y agoYou're assuming that management actually cares about fixing bugs.
- quickthrower2 4y agoMost work going on is feature work in my experience. Not bug fixes.
- victorNicollet 4y agoA new feature will take longer to implement on top of a badly designed or misbehaving dependency.
- Asooka 4y agoWhere do you work and are you hiring?
- Vinnl 4y agoIf you believe in the Jevons paradox [1], you can explain it without reaching for "bad developers". [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox