Posts tagged “software industry”

Agents are eating the software development lifecycle from the bottom up — code generation already gone, review and ops following fast. What remains is figuring out what people actually want, which can't be automated or scaled. That job is called product engineering, it pays $240k, and nobody's training for it.

The tech industry is broken: 3% unemployment for programmers, 20% for construction workers, and we're still hand-crafting websites like artisans. We need knowledge factories, training less-skilled workers to assemble standardized software products. Stop fetishizing craft. Build assembly lines. Fix the economy.

I'm reclaiming "web developer" as a title worth owning. Bad ones build websites; good ones push the web forward as a medium, experimenting and iterating. Stop hiding behind "frontend engineer" or "web architect." If you develop the web, say so proudly.

Cem Kaner's software bill of rights lists things that sound obvious and fundamental, yet we've been explicitly stripped of all of them through click-to-accept license agreements. More people should be furious about this.