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Re:Mark Zuckerberg’s new goal is creating artificial general... by vermilingua on Thursday January 18, 2024 @04:38PM (#39048137)
> They forced the whole industry to pay up.

And now we have industry-wide layoffs and a massive cooling of the job market.

> They basically invented modern web development.

Which is essentially a non-stop carosel that encourages cargo-culting and factory-farming of interns from boot camps.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg’s new goal is creating artificial general... by ldjkfkdsjnv on Thursday January 18, 2024 @04:42PM (#39048213)
So what, you would have preferred low pay all of these years?And you think React wasnt an improvement? Its been out for a decade now, the trope that javascript frameworks churn alot is not true anymore
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Re:Mark Zuckerberg’s new goal is creating artificial general... by kelnos on Thursday January 18, 2024 @06:24PM (#39049395)
I personally benefited from the high pay, but I don't know if we can definitively say that the average developer is coming out of this better, after all the layoffs and belt-tightening.
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