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some variation of this is what im expecting. jevon's paradox is going to push a ton of people who dont think of themselves as SWEs into weird hybrid pseudo-SWE roles, but the <p50 SWE who just writes java and doesn't bring any product or business insights to the table is turbo-fucked

yeah if you think of yourself as a machine that translates JIRA tickets into CRUD code, you are fuuuuucked

but if you're "the spreadsheet guy" at your job who understands the biz systems, welcome to being a SWE, you're one of us now.

Reminds me of an old story about CNC. The welders all got fired and replaced by computer nerds. The nerds sucked at everything. The company hired the welders back and taught them to use the computers.