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by scarejunba
2597 days ago
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There are things with low differentiation. Average day care is fine. Average janitorial services are okay. Average checkout operator is okay. No one needs the exceptional janitor. Fwiw though, I think there's lots of room for the mediocre software engineer. Enough work requires little to no skill. I've done some of it myself b |
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Unlike janitors or checkout operators, software work can be outsourced. Outsourcing doesn't make sense for high-skill software engineering for two reasons. First, actually writing the code is only a small part of the job. And second, even when it comes to writing the code, there's still a real quality difference between top US candidates and top international candidates [1].
But software work that requires "little to no skill" is exactly the sort of thing you can successfully outsource.
[1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/03/us-computer-science-...