Programmers as an Endangered Species... Hah!

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damien morton — Mon, 18 Oct 2004 01:02:00 GMT

I wonder if you're right - whilst I have seen stats and percentages that show that programming/IT jobs have been lost, I havent seen any stats on what kind of programming/IT jobs were lost. My intuition agrees with you, but guessometry isnt considered mainstream science.

re: Programmers as a Endagered Species... Hah!

Richard Tallent — Mon, 18 Oct 2004 05:50:00 GMT

While I agree that software factories may be important in future development, I disagree that this somehow gives Western workers an advantage over emerging software development powerhouse countries:

http://www.tallent.us/blog/CommentView.aspx?guid=30a2b2bd-bf0b-4828-992d-88c70fef73e4

re: Programmers as a Endagered Species... Hah!

Michael Lehman — Mon, 18 Oct 2004 09:29:00 GMT

Richard,

I didn't say, nor did I mean to imply, that Software Factories gives Western workers, or any other group of workers, any kind of advantage over one another. Neither did I say that Software Factories would (from your blog) "solve the outsourcing problem in America". I think that is focusing on the wrong problem.

I agree with your premise that it takes experience to optimally use automated tools.

My point is that, if we can, and I believe we must, create more demand than we have developers, there will more than enough, as you said, "jobs 'at the bottom' for people to gain the experience they need" in every population groupt and therefore no one group of programmers need fear any other group because they will all be needed.

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