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by mjr00 1228 days ago
> If you don't adapt, you'll be out of a job in ten years. Maybe sooner. Or maybe your salary will drop to $50k/yr because anyone will be able to glue together engineering modules. [...] The economy will learn to leverage cheaper systems to build the business solutions it needs.

I heard this in ~2005 too, when everyone said that programming was a dead end career path because it'd get outsourced to people in southeast Asia who would work for $1000/month.