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Re:The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding ... by jnovek on Sunday April 05, 2026 @10:00AM (#47649548)
How many people who cook professionally are gourmet chefs? I think it ends up that gourmet cooking is so infrequently needed that we don’t require everyone who makes food to do it, just a small group of professionally trained people. Most people who make food for a living work somewhere like McDonald’s and Applebee’s where a high level of skill is not required.

There will still be programming specialists in the future — we still have assembly experts and COBOL experts, after all. We just won’t need very many of them and the vast majority of software engineers will use higher-level tools.

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Re:The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding ... by ThrowawayR2 on Sunday April 05, 2026 @11:21AM (#47650345)
That's the problem though: programmers who become the equivalent of McDonald's workers will be paid poorly like McDonald's workers and be treated as disposable like McDonald's workers.
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Re:The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding ... by benlivengood on Monday April 06, 2026 @12:31AM (#47657016)
The problem is that mcdonalds workers are treated as disposable.

Countries with proper human rights and labor laws don't do that.

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