The GM strike is really about the switch to electric cars

Re:The GM strike is really about the switch to electric cars by MuffinFlavored on Saturday October 05, 2019 @06:30PM (#21168399)

> I think it's more likely that the basic math (algebra, geometry, etc)

I am a senior full stack developer and typically in the top 10% of the developers in my org wherever I've gone past 5 years.

I do 0 algebra or geometry. I call APIs, I put stuff in databases. I store state.

I really don't think it's "math"y at all. I transform data, I use libraries. I can't think of any algebraic examples of anything I've done in the past 5 years, let alone geometry.

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Re:The GM strike is really about the switch to electric cars by ThrowawayR2 on Saturday October 05, 2019 @08:14PM (#21168881)

> I do 0 algebra or geometry. I call APIs, I put stuff in databases. I store state.

That's not something to be happy about, that's something to be terrified of. If nothing the average coder does requires any particular specialized skills beyond gluing together libraries built by experts, what do you think will happen when, like the coal miners, some technological or societal change comes along that reduces the need for average coders?

Demand for coders isn't infinite.

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