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There’s a kind of bathtub curve between generalism and specialism. On the far left you have master generalists with incredible breadth of understanding and the
by jl6 3y ago
There’s a kind of bathtub curve between generalism and specialism.
On the far left you have master generalists with incredible breadth of understanding and the ability to summarize and strategize. These people are highly valued and often land in architecture or leadership roles.
Then in the middle you have the specialists. The Java developers and the Ops people. They’re less valuable because there are so many of them, and they’re somewhat interchangeable.
But then on the far right you’ve got super-specialists. They are masters of their niche - world-class experts with deep understanding who are sought after as the authority in their domain. These folk are super-valuable too.
AI will probably eat the ones in the middle first.
- seasily 3y agoIt’s very clear that Copilot/GPT-4 give superpowers to the generalist—-rapid prototyping—-and to the ultra-specialist—-no more yak-shaving in other domains. Most roles that are run-of-the-mill “knows framework X” just enough to support naive clients or actually high/value teams, will indeed go to zero. Which is amusing because 90% of the “AI” companies being started are run by people with no actual expertise, who probably are the most replaceable parts of deploying actual high/end systems.