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> “No agency or creativity or ability to innovate, anticipate beyond what they’re prompted, etc.” Sadly, you’ve just described the majority of the developers I
by jiggawatts 3y ago
> “No agency or creativity or ability to innovate, anticipate beyond what they’re prompted, etc.”
Sadly, you’ve just described the majority of the developers I’ve had to work with recently.
Most have no agency, write boilerplate code with no creativity, need their hand held every step of they way, and won’t do anything they’re not explicitly ordered to do.
You probably work in an SV startup with a highly skilled workforce. Out there in the real world there are armies of low-skill H1Bs and outsourcers that will soon be replaced with automation.
It’s a recurring theme in economics. Outsource to low cost labour, insource with automation, repeat.
- fnordpiglet 3y agoI’m describing the human mind, which all people have. But I get your point - and I think most of those people who aren’t particularly adept or skilled or interested in their jobs might find their jobs are more easily done by more adept or skilled or interested people. Consider digging tunnels. John Henry was skilled and adept and interested in what he did. He could beat the steam drill (at a cost!). But if you visit tunnel digs today isn’t not a thousand people slinging hammers, most of whom were unskilled and uninterested in the labor itself. It’s a thousand skilled engineers digging tunnels never dreamed of in John Henry’s day.