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Re:Why Are Politicians So Obsessed with Manufacturing? by joe_the_user on Thursday October 06, 2016 @12:08AM (#12650178)
1) Developer tools don't really eliminate jobs, not any time soon, not in way a robot can entirely eliminate a line welder position or a self-driving car could eliminate a taxi driver position.

2) Sure, you need all the hands you can get in the current market. Still, you wouldn't hire a ten thousand new developers tomorrow even if ten thousand people as competent as your most competent lead developers showed up on your doorstep tomorrow.

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Re:Why Are Politicians So Obsessed with Manufacturing? by euyyn on Thursday October 06, 2016 @02:12AM (#12650565)
The current market is precisely that there's so much low-hanging fruit in automating a developer job that we aren't going to entirely eliminate developer jobs any time soon; and hence why any new pair of hands helps.

The tech companies in SV told the Obama administration that if they gave a million more H1Bs to engineers, they'd hire them all. And plenty of them put resources on improving developer tools.

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