[KUcxrAVrtI]

This has always been the end game of social justice being funded so well. Destroy the professions and commoditize them.

Fortunately for us programming has been and always will be about the transformation of text into other text with a context sensitive grammar. Something that can't be automated and will always fail. Usually with people dying as the catalyst for on-shoring jobs again.

[sooheon]

Agree with a lot of this except the claim that professionals dwell only on certain shores.

[KUcxrAVrtI]

Reality disagrees. If software development could be done in India, Ukraine or whatever your preferred third world country is it would be getting done there already.

There's a reason why developers move to one of a handful of cities to be productive.

[zzzcpan]

It is already done in India and Ukraine. In Ukraine alone there are like 150k+ software developers.

[gurkendoktor]

If you lived in a $9/h region and had excellent development skills, why wouldn't you move to a $90/h region?

[shardinator]

Because the $90/hr regions won’t let you.

[gurkendoktor]

Fair enough. Not everyone will leave their family behind, not everyone will get a visa. But the "rich shores" have a massive statistical advantage in terms of talent because they attract skilled people from abroad, with little migration in the other direction:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/37-percent-of-silicon-val...