💭 Notes – 06:34 Mon 23 Mar 2026 – David Bushell – Web Dev (UK)
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Here's my thought on 💭 Notes – 06:34 Mon 23 Mar 2026 – David Bushell – Web Dev (UK)
Does anyone think fast-code will continue to pay the same salary? The answer isn’t to switch your brain off during your McCode shift and write a poem after work. Your job will be replaced by a Banglasdeshi slop-shop if AI improves (which is inevitable, apparently). Possibly the same sweatshop that loomed my £3 T-shirt. The Luddites didn’t accept their fate so easily.
David has some good points here, but I'm feeling the opposite direction a bit. Execs have always liked keeping the PM's and the people steering the ship close by and were willing to farm out more and more grunt work. It feels like we are in a weird phase where there used to be a big group of people paid to write code. A few of them are exceptionally good at it and will remain. There will be a need for these people everywhere. Somehow we still need people hand editing assembly code optimizations, fortran, and cobol today. Those industries largely moved on, but a few great ones remain. I think this fast-code slop factory is going to be a short forgotten time in history, but no one yet knows what's next. We are all waiting to find out. Just with anything there is still value in doing it by hand and understanding it at a deep level, but its quickly becoming hobby work. The things that most people code, things like CRUD apps do not require a special skill. They are largely replicating existing good patterns on frameworks to implement business logic that are custom to the app. There is no way of getting around the latter. Someone will always need to understand the business logic and be able to "sign off" and assert that it does the thing the business needs.
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