Hold on a minute. You can't discuss labor markets without discussing productivity. In the heyday of the automotive industry, the best auto worker in the world produced about the same output as the average auto worker. Maybe they messed up less, but being a genius autoworker didn't let you tower head and shoulders above the competition, because car factories are designed with auto workers as interchangeable parts. We'…
I think the argument is that the skill level and number of people needed for most development jobs will be lowered with platforms and tools that make it easy for a minimally trained user to do it. Someone still has to make the tools and platforms, but implementing them won't take as many people. Think about how many wildly popular websites run with a handful of people. How long will it be before you don't even need m…
Re: Developers are the autoworkers of our generation
#211And what's different is that auto workers weren't also building and designing the factories they worked in. Certainly there's something to be said for being the one who can design and build a tool vs being the one who can simply use it.