Comments by "iorekby" (@iorekby) on "Coding Jobs Are Changing. Should You Be Worried?" video.

  1. I disagree with Aaron on one thing: Learning the latest hot thing. In this case, no-code. Don't get me wrong, you should learn it eventually. But what will help you ride these waves is having a deep education on the fundamentals of CS. Understanding what is computation, and regardless of how many layers this get abstracted away, understanding how computational systems and devices work. Once you get that theory, learning whatever hot new thing comes along, be it Data Science, No Code, Cloud, Web Frameworks etc... will be much easier for you to understand and assimilate.
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  2. The reason is pretty simple. Channels like this are about JS and the Frontend. Many people who want to become coders learn JS and frontend. Linus, pretty much universally, is regarded as one of the greatest living programmers in the world today and possibly of all time. He has made it very clear what he thinks of front end devs and people who do that for a living (if you aren't familiar, lets just say it's really really unflattering). So, I think sometimes the "hate for Linux" from JS devs and Front End devs is a rebuttal to one of the world's best programmers, and honestly seems to come from a mix of saltiness and insecurity on their part. Sure, Linus by most accounts (even his own) is a bit of a grump. But even people on channels like this who "don't like Linux" would have to admit Linus is a brilliant programmer. Sadly, Linus would be unlikely to say anything complimentary about them in return.
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  3. Best comment!! Front end devs "I hate Linux" on YT channels that literally we wouldn't be able to watch without Linux LMAO.
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  4.  @nontraditionaltech2073  100% agreed and also well put! I don't dislike front end people either but many of them without a CS background sometimes seem completely unaware of how things actually work beyond CSS or JS, and how utterly dependent their web/mobile apps are on the contributions of people like Linus.
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  5. A lot of people miss a point Aaron glosses over here: Back in the day, you had to be really fucking smart to be a computer or software engineer. It was really hard and forget about getting a job without a) being a bonfide computer genius and /or b) having a top notch CS degree. Programmers back in the 80s and 90s used to be like medical doctors: very smart, highly educated and only a small number of people were actually able to do it. Post C, and with so many front end jobs, the entry level did indeed become lower to become a developer. It was a race to the bottom. Consequently, we now have a huge amount of people working professionally as "software developers" who are quite frankly appalling at coding. Just look at GitHub sometime, see how many projects actually have meaningful numbers of forks. It's not a lot. It's less than 10% of all the projects on there. That can mean many things, but one thing it might likely mean is that 90% of code on GitHub isn't particularly good or useful. There's a lot of dogsh!t code and dogsh!t coders out there today. It creates a vicious cycle: companies need to hire more developers because so many of their developers are subpar, meaning they need more people at keyboards hacking out bad code to make something work. The tech industry also condones bad code. The well worn mantra still holds true: Badly written software that is delivered on time is better than good software that is late. In other words, tech companies are often ambivalent about bad coding. Tl;DR Most code and coders are dogsh!t today as entry barriers in to tech are so low, and because tech companies don't care about selling badly coded software as they can and do make money doing this. While for now it's good because it means any Joe 6-pack can become a developer, we're eventually going to go back to the days when computer/software engineers were fairly elite. Many of the Joe 6 pack coders will be put out of a job, and only the people maintaining things like 5th gen languages, Deep Learning systems or NoCode solutions will have jobs.
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  6. I'll also point out that the likes of SquareSpace has been going for over a decade, and the need for JS developers still continues to grow, not shrink.
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  7. It's definitely going that way in software industry too. Web Dev is actually ahead of the game with UX. In a generation we won't have "software developers". We'll have "software designers".
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  8.  @this_mfr  It's not possible to do today. 10 odd years ago, front end devs scoffed at the likes of Wix and SquareSpace because you couldn't really do payment engines on them so they weren't good for e-commerce. Today Wix and SquareSpace are killing it in that space and have solutions for that in place. Trust me, they know they need to keep evolving their platforms. They are continually building in new features that users might require on a website. Sure, some niche projects might require custom coding. But for popular features on websites, you can almost guarantee the likes of Wix and SquareSpace will have them on sooner rather than later. I'm not being negative, I'm just seeing the terrain as I've worked in tech for 17 years. It's why I tell front end Devs to get in to UX. That's the future for front end devs. Not coding websites per se, but designing them.
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  9.  @OfoeNelson  That's science fiction and not really based on any sensible understanding of our AI capabilities. I mean, the computational power alone to create a "skynet" would boil every ocean in the world about 10 times over for a start.
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  10. Linus can be a bit of an ass, but in fairness if you are going to say all the negative stuff he's said about front end devs, at least he has the CV to back it up. The guy is genuinely one of the greatest programmers of all time.
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