[mleroy]

Over the past 30 years, computers and software have dramatically transformed our world. Yet many sectors remain heavily influenced by their analog history. My understanding is that the HN community has always recognized that the future is already here, just not evenly distributed across work environments, administration, and general processes. Didn't many of us believe that numerous jobs could be replaced by a few lines of code if inputs and outputs were properly standardized? The fact that this hasn't happened or has occurred very slowly due to institutional inertia is another story altogether. Whether software development will become a "bullshit job" or how the world will look in a few years remains unknown. But those who constantly praise their work as software developers while simultaneously acknowledging that other non-physical jobs and processes could be fundamentally overhauled are living in a cognitive bubble—something I wouldn't have expected in this community.