I found this thought funny. A few years ago everyone was all learn to code so you don’t lose your job! Now there wont be any programming jobs in 10 years. But we will need a lot of manual labor still.

  • TheFogan@programming.dev
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    4 days ago

    Well yeah but I believe the idea is in short the uncertainty, why it’s saying “in 10 years”. Think of it now as you have a kid graduating high school this year, and asks you what to major in in college that’s likely to make enough to pay off those killer loans it’s going to take.

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      Well, Wordpress was meant to replace all professional web builders. Visual programming was meant to obsolete all programmers because everyone will be able to write software. Every decade there’s a new thing that will replace programmers. Nothing did so far.

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        3 days ago

        Nothing did so far.

        You have to admit, Visual Basic 3.0 was some cool shit, though, right?

        I’ll admit it didn’t replace us, and it’s gone now. But that shit was still cool.