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> The owning class will use it to reduce payroll costs Things are cyclic, nothing new; the previous big scare was (is?) outsourcing, where for the same price a
by Cthulhu_ 1y ago
> The owning class will use it to reduce payroll costs
Things are cyclic, nothing new; the previous big scare was (is?) outsourcing, where for the same price as one developer in western / northern Europe or SF you can hire five from eastern Europe or India. But that hasn't affected employability of the one developer, as far as I'm aware.
I'm not even thinking of skill level, I'm sure that's comparable (but honestly I don't know / care enough), but both outsourcing and AI require the same things - requirements. I've grown up in this country (the Netherlands) and automatically have intrinsic knowledge of e.g. government, taxes, the energy sector, transportation, etc, so much that I'm not even consciously aware of a lot of things I know. If you spend a LOT of time and effort, you could - eventually - break that down into requirements and work orders or whatever that someone else could process. But it's much more efficient to do it yourself or just hire someone from around here.
- RainyDayTmrw 1y agoI know of two major examples - one personal and one word-of-mouth - where a major US company successfully took their Covid era remote work knowledge, applied it to outsourcing, and successfully replaced most of their US onshore developers with offshore.
- ge96 1y ago> hasn't affected employability of the one developer I wonder, combo that r&d rule, general economics, saturation in the field The norm for new grads seems to be "apply at least 2000 times, get 1 job"
- tangjurine 1y agothe one developer one dev to rule them all, and in darkness bind them sounds like a 10x dev to me
- worik 1y ago> the previous big scare was (is?) outsourcing, I was replaced by outsourcing Seriously. Fuck off
- bevr1337 1y ago> Things are cyclic, nothing new Must be a convenient worldview