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The cope island of objections will continue to shrink.

Being able to easy create apps means huge supply, which means commodification of software just like the commodification of physical goods. Mass supply means low prices. It won’t be economic to have artisan coders any more than to have artisan goods makers.



And yet people still want artisan goods, artwork, high end food, things that aren’t “economic”.


Very, very, few people buy these things.


Okay? It doesn't refute my point.


The point is that artisanal code is to a first approximation a thing of the past. Most engineers will not have a job writing code in these niches that survive, and thus coding as a career is effectively dead.




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