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Jonathan Blow predicted the collapse of web jobs about a year back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTkRPwnzE4w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTkRPwnzE4w Bas
by ilrwbwrkhv 3y ago
Jonathan Blow predicted the collapse of web jobs about a year back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTkRPwnzE4w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTkRPwnzE4w
Basically get out of web dev if you can. Do real programming and try and tackle harder problems.
Or even step into entrepreneurship. A talented programmer should be able to create a fast growing company within 2 years if they really applied themselves.
- __loam 3y agoBlow has a ton of bad takes even if he's a very knowledgeable game programmer. I don't think you should use this to try and explain the broader macroeconomic conditions we're currently facing. The much more reasonable explanation is we're moving from an economic regime where borrowing money was cheap to one where it's expensive and there are a lot of experienced developers in the labor market after a year that had hundreds of thousands of layoffs rather than a general collapse of the web development space.
- Klonoar 3y ago…what? Your last sentence flies right in the face of every statistic around new business failure rates. You might get a nice side project going, but no sentence like that should imply it’s that simplified. And to be clear I support the idea that programmers should be open to walking the path of entrepreneurship but we owe it to our fellow people to not paint a false picture.
- bitwize 3y agoAh yes, the 2024 version of the old Hackernews "any programmer who's any good should be able to quit their job Friday and walk into a new role the following Wednesday". Still not true.
- UK-AL 3y agoThe last statement is complete bullshit. To build a cash flow positive company requires a lot sales, marketing, PR etc and probably more than 1 engineer.