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by pydry 1816 days ago
It's true I probably wouldnt have laughed quite as loudly if there werent a chorus of smug economists telling us that tools like this are gonna put me out of a job.
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Business types hate dealing with programmers, that's a fact. And these claims of "we'll replace programmers" happen with certain precise regularity.

Ruby on Rails was advertised as so simple, startup founders who can't program were making their entire products in it in a few days, with zero experience. As if.

Economists don't believe this. It's non-economists who do. Economists know that it's not possible to run out of jobs because demand is infinite.