alt Hacker News> Yeah but there were a lot less ditch diggers in the world after the invention of the backhoe
As a specialization? Sure. But the ditch diggers moved since to machine operators, handymen and the like.
In the past there were sysadmins. Do we have less software engineers since sysadmins ceased to be a thing?
> As a specialization? Sure. But the ditch diggers moved since to machine operators, handymen and the like.
All of them? What if they liked digging ditches?
> In the past there were sysadmins. Do we have less software engineers since sysadmins ceased to be a thing?
Software Engineers were never sysadmins in the past, you’re thinking DevOps maybe?