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Re:Underdog Devs: supporting formerly incarcerated and disad... by nomdep on Thursday October 07, 2021 @07:37PM (#28793582)
There is nothing wrong, except that, usually in a blue collar job, everyone is replaceable and the salaries are low to average.

Yes, all of this come from fear of not being able to make a living as a programmer in 10 years

Re:Underdog Devs: supporting formerly incarcerated and disad... by auslegung on Thursday October 07, 2021 @08:01PM (#28793775)
> Yes, all of this come from fear of not being able to make a living as a programmer in 10 years

Caveat: I'm in the USA, so what I'm about to say may only apply here. I don't know the market for software engineers outside the USA.

In 10 years, you and I will have 10 more years of experience than we do now. We will probably be twice as valuable to a company. Anyone who joins the field today will forever be behind us in years of experience. Years of experience means nothing if the experience isn't valuable, so we need to continue improving. That's a good thing.

I don't know the exact distribution, but not everyone who joins the field today will even be able to compete with us for jobs in 10 years. I'm just guessing here, but I think the majority of people, or at least a very large minority, don't make it to senior level. Some quit and change careers, others don't want to or can't get there.

I'm in no way concerned about job security in 10 years. I see AI being a larger threat to our jobs than other developers. But I doubt it will be a threat to my career. I have about 30 years left, and each year I have more experience than before. So AI would have to overtake me at some point in the next 30 years, and in the meantime also overtake /lots/ of others. The software engineering field would be fairly decimated by AI before it took my job.

Re:Underdog Devs: supporting formerly incarcerated and disad... by nickthemagicman on Friday October 08, 2021 @03:53AM (#28796764)
Does experience matter in technology that much?
Re:Underdog Devs: supporting formerly incarcerated and disad... by petr25102018 on Friday October 08, 2021 @05:10AM (#28797184)
Exactly. We see it again and again that years of experience don't matter unless it is with a specific tech, and tech gets replaced all the time.
Re:Underdog Devs: supporting formerly incarcerated and disad... by navd on Friday October 08, 2021 @09:45AM (#28799222)
Yes but from the frame that the amount of diff problems you experience matters. Not your 10 years of experience solving 1 set of problems
Re:Underdog Devs: supporting formerly incarcerated and disad... by endisneigh on Thursday October 07, 2021 @07:48PM (#28793679)
everyone is replaceable in tech too (or basically any job for that matter).