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> It's worth stating because we are 'knowledge' workers and pride ourselves on our ability to learn and adapt. I don't think this is universally true for peopl
by luckylion 1y ago
> It's worth stating because we are 'knowledge' workers and pride ourselves on our ability to learn and adapt.
I don't think this is universally true for people working in IT. For some it definitely is, others don't care about their work and avoid learning and adapting at all cost because it's effort. They want the paycheck, but you'll need to threaten them with termination to get them to learn something new.
- throwaway31131 1y agoThose regular paycheck jobs exist but they’re never going to be safe and they’ve never been safe. I’ve been in tech for decades and waves of safe jobs disappearing happens regularly as technology improves. I view these types of articles as 2025’s version of the 2003 article below, which was very big news in its day. Outsourcing didn’t cause all American programming jobs to go away but it did raise the bar. Expect the bar for “professional programmer” to go higher still. And expect to level up your skills if you haven’t already. On the flip side, the number of amateur programmers is likely to increase a lot with improved tooling. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/training-your-own-replacement/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/training-your-own-replacement/