Comment by newswasboring
2 years ago
Aah, its a supply side thing. That actually makes sense, I would leave a job too if all I did was write the same html page all day.
(Don't know if that is a fair analogy, maybe a better one exists on sysadmin side?)
Because programming is meta-applicable, competent practitioners will respond to being given the same task over and over by automating it, which isn't a thing if the whole point of what you do is that a human did it manually.
Princess Nell's observation about the nature of the Dovetail community in the novel Diamond Age applies: this is all very well, but it makes no actual sense without the context of the rest of society, on its own this practice is not tenable.