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Aren't the things in your second paragraph only a small fraction of coding jobs?

If we end up with those being the kind of jobs you have to get to make a living as a programmer we could end up with programming a lot like sports.

You can enjoy playing basketball, say, as an amateur, and you can play more seriously in high school and college, but if you want to make a living playing basketball you need to be good enough to make the NBA.



Are they? Most B2C tooling are free or nearly free or serve a very small market. The heavyweights are all B2B and I don’t believe they can tolerate the inefficiency for long.




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