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Discussion on: Developer is the next blue collar job

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rhymes

Expertise is important, don’t get me wrong, however the world needs bread-and-butter developers like me to do the grunt work.

True, though one could also use this as the foundation of an argument in favor of automatization and thus the end of people doing "grunt work".

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Michael Cain

Perhaps, but just like the construction business, we are a LONG way away from automating run-of-the-mill “digital construction”. I see a future where “grunts” will have automated tools to build more, faster. We will still be required, however.

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rhymes

I see a future where “grunts” will have automated tools to build more, faster.

I wouldn't call them "grunts".

Anyway, some tools are starting to pop up. Zapier, IFFT, Stamplay and others I guess.