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by mathgeek
490 days ago
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To be clearer: when you say the latter, do you mean the latter of your blueprints example or your avionics one? I'd guess that since most developers/engineers are working in things like web apps, fintech, applied AI/crypto, etc. these days that most of the folks contributing to and consuming HN are closer to the "not engineers" in your specific example, but that is indeed just an educated guess. |
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The idea that most software developers are working in low-skill positions (i.e. distributing the output of an LLM over their Jira queue) is probably not as wrong as I wish it was, but those kind of developers aren't interested in software development as a craft to begin with, so I think (hope?) they aren't anywhere close to comprising most of the HN readership.
Also those positions don't pay as well; HN cares more about the $600k/yr jobs than the $60k/yr ones, and nobody pays $600k/yr for someone to copy-paste NPM invocations from Stack Overflow.