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kybernetikoslast Friday at 8:16 PM1 replyview on HN

>> one doing the job ten use to.

> This would increase employment ceteris paribus.

This might be true, but if it is, the one "doing the job ten use[d] to" would not actually being doing the same kind of work at all, and so therefore might not be the same people or even same kind of people. Even if we do Jevons ourselves out of this situation, it might still spell employment disaster for mid level coders, while increasing employment for product managers.


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astrangelast Friday at 9:28 PM

Indeed that's the case, but it's sort of what software engineers signed up for anyway. I don't know if people are expecting to go their whole careers without learning a new stack / language. Maybe they are?