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Whether the wave of abstraction drowns you or propels you depends on whether try to fight it or learn to surf it I personally love that about every year or 18
by thatthatis 12y ago
Whether the wave of abstraction drowns you or propels you depends on whether try to fight it or learn to surf it
I personally love that about every year or 18 months the time it would take me to build a particular feature set drops by about half (either because libraries have arisen, I gained experience, or I have code that does half of it already).
If you're not putting yourself out of a job every six months or so, someone else will.
- gfodor 12y agoweb developers like the OP can very easily go the way of any other field that has been killed by sufficient automation. i don't see CRUD-app development as a robust, long term skill, despite how well paying it has been the last decade. if you consider 'surfing' to mean always being up on the latest web framework or library, as many do, then I think that is too narrow a scope to consider yourself immune from being automated out of a job. if you consider 'surfing' to be looking at broader strokes in other areas of computer science and software eating the world in general, then that's a different story. you have to diversify.
- thatthatis 12y agoI agree that broader software is one way to surf. I also think writing the automation that puts you out of a job is another way. Crud is never going to go away but the disequilibrium will, and many use cases will get reduced to libraries or packages.