In a way, a more empowering choice than being simply ordered to do something impossible.
Employees can simply say: "Dear boss, I bet it will be more like ten hours of work, but if you stand by your estimate you can do it yourself or spend some time looking for an optimist".
If the clock is ticking, estimates aren't going to be very aggressive; when no competent person accepts tickets nothing gets done.
Car payments, Klarna bills, student loans, credit card bills, rent...these are all the pitchforks prodding people to take the work...America has a massive pool of must-workers
It keeps turning out that there is more to programming than meets the eye, that we are very important to the success of the business, and that we need to be closely connected to the business to be able to deliver great solutions.
It's important to think about these dark possibilities and resist them, but it's also important to realize these scenarios have a history of failing to materialize.
The worldwide supply of programmers has increased 10 - 100 - 1000x since the 1990s. The world has changed.
Quantity has a quality all its own.
Is this something you've read or that you made up?
Of course it also says median salary is $100k and I haven’t been able to hire a programmer at $100k in 20 years. So I think there’s a lot of variability.
[0] https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...
[0] https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...
And combining the -11% of 147K and +25% of 1.8M, BLS is projecting a net increase of over 400K jobs in the two categories.
But that includes QA and testers.
Anything that requires more than three hours of effort or actual understanding of the product domain will remain the purview of smaller, more flexible entities, and the big creaky exploitative ticket machine will have it's lunch eaten by others that are more effective at execution.
so basically, just like today
Employers can simply say : "this ticket is three hours of work and that is all that we will pay", and your choice will be take it or leave it
We are well on our way to most tech jobs becoming "McJobs", this is one more step...HN really has its collective head buried in the sand in this regard imho
I already see this at my employer (well known HW maker)...more and more dev work falls to QA staff who are poorly compensated and have no mobility....QA has just become code for "low end dev" and they do nothing but pull from JIRA (advice: never take a QA job in tech if you desire good pay or mobility)