I fired my entire dev team. Replaced them with O1, Lovable, and Cursor. Now I ship 100X faster with code that’s 10X cleaner. Open AI o3 is coming, and 90% of dev jobs won’t survive.
I fired my entire dev team. Replaced them with O1, Lovable, and Cursor. Now I ship 100X faster with code that’s 10X cleaner. Open AI o3 is coming, and 90% of dev jobs won’t survive.
Replace “AI” with anything or anyone promising quick, easy or cheap solutions.
This decade it’s AI, last decade it was outsourcing to the third world. The assault on skilled workers never stops.
Skilled workers cost money.
Shareholders hate that.
*last four decades
Yeah I remember when I started my career 15 years ago they were already trying to re-internalize projects after having horrible off -shore experience…
Arguably it’s been going on since Nixon normalized relations with China, which led to the factories moving there for cheaper labor and the eventual hollowing out of the so called middle class in America.
It really took off in the 90s though with the passage of NAFTA and the establishment of the idea of globalization and neoliberalism aka “third way” thinking and the idea of the “end of history” (Francis Fukuyama) after the fall of the USSR. (He has since reneged on a lot of ideas that made him popular in the first place).
It most certainly has not been just a decade though. Any fair argument is gonna pin it on being the last 30-50 or so years.