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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

jake@yetanotheruseless.com

a smaller (than now) number of absurdly paid software veterans who know the insides of the algorithms, the models, the hardware, and know where the bodies are buried. They will be paid 7fig+ a vastly larger (way more than now) number of slop-cannons, -janitors, and -plumbers, paid fine: 50-100k

Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)

@lizthegrey.com

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

Thoth

@thoth.ptnote.dev

People started saying this recently and uh. That is how I learned that this is a genre of person that exists?

Thoth

@thoth.ptnote.dev

I mean outside of classroom assignments I don't think I've ever been on a project where "turn a description of the code you need to write into code" was an option. Even if there is a ticket it's usually your job to find the source of the problem and decide the right course of action!

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