“Just like electricians or carpenters, #softwaredevelopers must spend years practicing their craft in order to become skilled and sought-after. It doesn’t necessarily require a formal education, but it certainly takes time and practice to master.
I wonder whether this incorrect assumption is fuelling, at least in part, the current #AI #identitycrisis that software developers are facing. #Bluecollar workers, in general, have successfully ridden the waves of technological change. If you can manage a crew of manual carpenters, you can also manage a warehouse full of woodworking robots. It’s usually the #whitecollar workers who bear the most economic disruption from major technological innovations.
#Software engineers are discovering that, just like anyone else in a skilled trade, they actually can be outpaced by technology. So we do what other skilled traders have done: figure out how to use the new technology to do the jobs we used to do by hand.”
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