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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Nov 2021

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Russell Newquist

      1/ good thread I think that I disagree w the 2nd half of tweet #3 - I think that because software is eating the world, the demand for top tier software people is EXPLODINGhttps://twitter.com/rnewquist/status/1459542937986031621 …

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      Russell Newquist @rnewquist
      1/3 I think you're both correct. It's a bifurcated market. Most CS grads (70% ish?) are basically slapping glorified UIs on top of databases, web or otherwise. There are too many of these people, and they're usually not actually capable of doing much else. https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1459197502696083459 …
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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Nov 2021

      2/ @ByrneHobart's essays have made me realize the importance of complements: if concrete has some value & some cost, but a structural engineer can design a form so as to get 5x utility out of each cubic yard of concrete over the naive utilization (e.g. elegant arches vs blocks)

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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Nov 2021

      3/ you might at first think "oh, more structural engineers mean less concrete, because each one can stretch the concrete further" ...but it might also mean that structural engineers really unlock the all purpose utility of concrete, and so it gets used in more places >>>

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    4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Nov 2021

      4/ ...and thus the demand for concrete goes UP. Software is just logic / thinking, where it's expensive to build once, but literally too cheap to meter per run thereafter, and logic / thinking is a complement to EVERYTHING under the sun. Thus "software is eating the world".

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    5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Nov 2021

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Russell Newquist

      5/ I don't see any natural limit for the demand for thinking, so I don't think that the demand for software is going to slow down any time soon - the reverse, actually, I think.https://twitter.com/rnewquist/status/1459547232168992770 …

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      Russell Newquist @rnewquist
      Replying to @MorlockP
      Automation is and will counter that. Also, the nature of software itself. Once a problem is solved once, it doesn't *have* to be solved again (it often is for various reasons, but that's a different conversation).
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    6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Nov 2021

      6/ We may get to the point where the cutting edge of software design / implementation requires a higher g than most would-be-coders have...and thus total employment may collapse ... but the DEMAND will not collapse, is my bet.

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Nov 2021

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Russell Newquist

      7/ sure, but reuse is GOOD when we started producing screws on machines instead of requiring a machinist to cut each one on a lathe, or with a die, did the total demand for machinists go up or down? Up, I suspect >>>https://twitter.com/rnewquist/status/1459547932882046980 …

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      Russell Newquist @rnewquist
      Replying to @rnewquist @MorlockP
      This is highly visible in the field if you know where to look. Entire areas that used to require many teams of the highly skilled CS grads are now performed (better) by open source libraries that are maintained by three guys in their basements not getting paid.
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        2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Nov 2021

          8/ ...because screws are a complement to machine tools, and machine tools are a complement to machinists. Likewise, standard libraries make it POSSIBLE to solve harder problems in reasonable amounts of time, and thus the demand for software engineers has gone up.

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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Nov 2021

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Russell Newquist

          9/ we agree on this the market clearing price of a guy who can copy-and-paste PHP from stackexchange into a crappy 2004 Wordpress site is $20/hrhttps://twitter.com/rnewquist/status/1459548597561794566 …

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          Russell Newquist @rnewquist
          Replying to @rnewquist @MorlockP
          This is, in fact, *why* the underclass of devs already exists. The problems they know how to solve are already solved.
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        4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Nov 2021

          10/ ...and this, in turn, is one of the reasons that there's such an interest in "social" "justice": there's an overproduction of [ would be ] elites, and ideology is a good smoke screen to redistribute / capture some of the pay of the top 10% engineers to others w lower g.

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        5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Nov 2021

          11/ hmm ... ADHD drugs as a method to shift the supply curve of programmer talent?

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