Ask HN: The Collapse of Web Programming Jobs

Re:Ask HN: The Collapse of Web Programming Jobs by softwaredoug on Sunday July 30, 2023 @01:23PM (#36933583)

It’s a game developer saying his kind of skills will be in demand while “those other” skills won’t be. I have no idea what will happen, but color me skeptical on this take. If for no other reason there’s not a lot of detail on why.

Specifically why does web programming get easier but game programming does not? Why wouldn’t all programming get gradually easier.

In any case I do think you do yourself a disservice if you can’t pivot to a different part of software. When I graduated college 20 years ago the trend was monolithic Java or C++ apps. There was no Stackoverflow. There was barely a functioning web search engine. AI was rule based. Deep learning wasn’t readily used, nor was machine learning. JavaScript was barely used.

If you’re not constantly thinking about your skills investment and direction, you could be left behind.

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Re:Ask HN: The Collapse of Web Programming Jobs by badpun on Monday July 31, 2023 @05:46PM (#36949297)

His point isn't that web development is or will be so easy that it will be easy to hire for and thus not in demand. His point is that, most of people who work on "web" code do pointless busywork or just don't work very hard. He believes that this situation will fix itself up eventually, when economics of this amount of waste will become untenable (e.g. when big tech will stop making easy money and will have to actually look at costs).

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