Post Ayix3jV3fOY8Es6Joe by manux@mastodon.opencloud.lu
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 (DIR) Post #AyhWFDoSPdmhW9T7IW by kyle@mastodon.kylerank.in
       2025-09-29T14:22:37Z
       
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       Years ago I said software development was the new shop class--something kids were taught in high school to secure a high-paying career, only to have the industry replace those jobs with automation.The professor in this article has the right idea: you should be good at multiple things (and learning new things), because you can not predict where the industry will go. Many people will have to change careers multiple times in their life.https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/leading-computer-science-professor-says-095502798.html#ai #automation
       
 (DIR) Post #AyhWQiaGLZ5A8bJLf6 by gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafe
       2025-09-29T14:24:41Z
       
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       @kyle I've found that the underlying skill is solving problems.  People will always have problems and pay others to help solve them.  It used to be with trades; many times now it's with programming or other IT work; it's still farming and automotive (I don't grow my own food nor can I maintain my own car), so I pay to solve those problems.As the great bard once said, "If you've got a problem, yo, I'll solve it."
       
 (DIR) Post #AyhXGaU5hp2K4l9pXE by manux@mastodon.opencloud.lu
       2025-09-29T14:33:56Z
       
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       @kyle i understand these ideas are well intentioned, but they are still a subtle form of "blame the victim".
       
 (DIR) Post #Ayhn15LamypUQdoQGO by kyle@mastodon.kylerank.in
       2025-09-29T17:30:35Z
       
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       @manux I re-read my post and I’m not sure where you are detecting blame here. I’m simply trying to say that (quoting Twain) while history doesn’t repeat itself, it rhymes. This pattern has appeared in different forms at least since the Industrial Revolution, and based on that, I was offering some advice for folks on how to navigate this most recent example.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ayix3jV3fOY8Es6Joe by manux@mastodon.opencloud.lu
       2025-09-30T06:57:46Z
       
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       @kyle Hello Kyle, indeed I was not implying you did 😅 It was more the general subject of the article. The problem is companies using every possible occasion to replace salaries with profits, and our reaction being "learn more, study more, work more".It is like saying that if a girl does not like to be catcalled, she should dress differently (hint: it does not change anything).There is a human limit to learning.