>Programmers that never had to think about "what" to do are are just implementation machines Do such programmers even exist today? I thought the Dot Com Crash

>Programmers that never had to think about "what" to do are are just implementation machines Do such programmers even exist today? I thought the Dot Com Crash wiped out any remnants of such jobs. Every software development job now is a composite job of some sort, demanding skills and duties that were previously separated into other roles. This trend of condensing/combining roles applies to non-tech industries as well. Specialization is still demanded, too, but the predicted future of hyper-specialization where every professional exists in a nanoscopic niche never materialized. We instead got multi-specialization due to an ever-shifting and highly unreliable labor environment. This is why the job title of "GPT Prompt Engineer" is a joke, and will never actually exist.