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The honest truth is it can go either way, really. Just ask all the sign-painters and portrait artists how their career is going
by fenwick67 8mo ago
The honest truth is it can go either way, really. Just ask all the sign-painters and portrait artists how their career is going
- apsurd 8mo agoBut sign painting isn't programming? The comment is insightful and talks specifically of low and no code options creating more need for developers. Great point. has nothing to do with non programming jobs.
- fenwick67 8mo agowhat is special about programming jobs that makes them permanently immune from the high skilled workers being in low demand
- apsurd 8mo agosoftware is an infinite resource
- ej88 8mo agothe specific tasks (i.e. writing code) might disappear but the actual work of constructing reliable systems from vague user requirements with an essentially unbounded resource (software) will exist
- fatherwavelet 8mo agoOf course this is true. Just like the need to travel long distances over land will never disappear. The skills needed to be a useful horseman though have almost nothing to do with the skills needed to be a useful train conductor. Most the horseman skills don't really transfer other than being in the same domain of land travel. The horseman also has the problem that they have invested their life and identity into their skill with horses. It massively biases perspective. The person with no experience with horses actually has some huge advantages of the beginner mind in terms of travel by land at the advent of travel by rail. The ad nauseam software engineer "horsemen" arguments on this board that there will always be the need to travel long distance by land completely misses the point IMO.
- SoftTalker 8mo agoHave you ever tried to paint a sign?
- yunohn 8mo agoWell, if we’re comparing all jobs to all other jobs - then you may have a valid point. Otherwise, we should probably focus on comparing complexity and supply/demand for the skills and output being spoken about.