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by booleandilemma 3428 days ago
Because things are good now. Developers are making decent salaries. In most cases far better than their friends who chose other career paths.

But I don't think it will always be this way. With the rise of bootcamps and the influx of new developers we're going to see over the next 15 years, thanks to all of today's kids learning to code, I think developers are at serious risk of becoming commoditized. I see a future where a developer is paid the salary of a retail cashier and it scares me.
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mrmaximus 3428 days ago
> I see a future where a developer is paid the salary of a retail cashier and it scares me.

The only way that will happen is if Point-of-Sale systems become so complex that a developer has to run them, or development becomes as easy as punching buttons on a Point-of-Sale system.

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booleandilemma 3428 days ago
The difficulty of development doesn't have to change, and I'm not saying it will, but the number of people who know how to program will increase.
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dsacco 3427 days ago
That concerns me as well. If you'd like some consolation, make a job post and interview "senior software engineers" sometime. Try fizzbuzz as a first question (yes, even in 2017).
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madamelic 3425 days ago
Yeah.

It was a really sad day when they started teaching English and Math to elementary school kids.

Kids today are just punching out novels and theorems like there is no tomorrow...

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