Programming labor market
Half the people who *could* code don’t want to because it is boring
Half the people who *do* code shouldn’t because they’re not really up to the challenge
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I’m mostly in the doesn’t code/shouldn’t code quadrant.
If you’re in this quadrant despite having an engineering background and being competent enough at other aspects of it., it’s called being a squib. As in Harry Potter.
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What about someone who could, do, and up to, but is so out of phase with the market that there are no marketable skills there?
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You have marketable skills. You lack marketable demands.
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Artem + Good artist/designer = good video game + hilarious inside story memoir, ‘The Making of Game X’ which would outsell the game
A long and graphic story about how i spent a decade unraveling the mysteries of cognition and chains of frozen time while making an AI to code the game for me instead of spending a week coding the game. FML.
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