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Re:Tech industry's persistent claim of worker shortage may b... by rewqfdsa on Monday August 03, 2015 @12:27AM (#9993800)
> lots of the work developers are tasked with doing is really quite repetitive, intellectually unchallenging and uninspired.

Then why the fuck isn't work automated away? We're developers, for God's sake! We develop things!

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Re:Tech industry's persistent claim of worker shortage may b... by Eridrus on Monday August 03, 2015 @02:20AM (#9994109)
Because automation isn't magic.

The fact that something is repetitive and intellectually unchallenging doesn't mean it is mechanical and doesn't require human involvement and/or judgement.

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