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> Software "engineering" is the new factory work. I always found interesting how this has always been true, but a lot of people seemed to not notice, behind th
by aylmao 3y ago
> Software "engineering" is the new factory work.
I always found interesting how this has always been true, but a lot of people seemed to not notice, behind the high-pay and benefits of past. Software engineering has always been just labour. Relatively scarce labour, but we were never "in control".
- intelVISA 3y agoUnless you own the company you are never "in control".
- scarface_74 3y agoIf you own the company you are still not in control - you have to worry about customers and a larger company throwing a few people at your product and squashing you like a cockroach
- gumballindie 3y agoThis truth got blurred by "solving hard problems" and "rock star developer" mantras. I'm sorry but plumbing APIs and building react interfaces is neither of the two. It's all about churning out features (or parts as they used to be called in old days of manufacturing). Even the agile methodologies used are essentially factory floor practices adapted to operating keyboards. The only way to ever be in control is to own a business.
- hotpotamus 3y agoI’ve been telling people on this forum for years that when Jeff Bezos looks down at them from on high (literally from space at one point), he sees them as barely differentiated units of labor. The talk about passion and innovation quickly struck me as just another part of a system to keep employees from thinking too hard about what the job really entails.