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Enjoy it while it lasts because the more that do this, the faster this will lead to similar crunch the US is experiencing (workers having to justify their exist
by RGamma 3y ago
Enjoy it while it lasts because the more that do this, the faster this will lead to similar crunch the US is experiencing (workers having to justify their existence to the owners of an ever more efficient economy). Our trade is in accelerating business after all..
- solardev 3y agoI don't know, a part of me hopes that my profession becomes just another boring line of work. I started doing this in the 90s when web dev was as unglamorous as any other line-of-business programming work, not much different than being a DB admin. Then over time it grew into a bubble (and then another) and then COVID hit and it all exploded... but that was never gonna be sustainable. I would rather it be a mundane industry again without hypergrowth, attracting only the people who are really interested in it, rather than the folks who're in it for the money and who try to speculate on and grow every business and team into inevitable enshittification. In my mind it's really just another trade skill, not entirely different from carpentry or plumbing, and should be treated as such and just casually exist in every neighborhood, mostly invisible, not be the end-all-be-all of the entire economy. Then people like us just live and work and immigrate like any other humble skilled craftsperson, not some hoity-toity digital capitalist. I hate the glamor and glitz and competitiveness -- and dark patterns and shitty management and MBA thinking -- that excess wealth brought to this industry. shrug Maybe the AI boom will draw away all the capitalist speculators and web dev becomes just another unsexy mundane job again.