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Re:Ask HN: Have developers become a commoditised resource? by seibelj on Sunday July 19, 2020 @10:26AM (#23889561)
Certain businesses see developers as a commodity and work to further commoditize them by using cookie-cutter tooling that turns programming as closely as possible into plugging cords into outlets. However this can only take you so far.

If you have developers that use ever-more-simplified-tools and languages, there are companies that make those tools, and cloud companies that make the infrastructure and build all the things that make life easier for other companies. They still need strong programmers.

There will always be the need for extremely good programmers. If you are an extremely good programmer then you should be able to earn outsized monetary rewards and find intellectually stimulating projects if you are able to move to the right location (SF, Boston) and interview well.

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