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More than a quarter of computer-programming jobs just vanished. What happened? (AI column)

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Guys from the Washington Post analyse Statistics on the labor market in the United States and found that the number of positions for programmers (programmers) It has declined significantly over the past two years. If you carefully read the article, you can see that the guys are looking at the classification of specialties in the United States, where programmer (programmer) and developer (software developer) officially separated. In government classification, programmers do routine work, whereas much more numerous – and much faster growing – software developers have broader responsibilities. They work with clarifying customer needs, designing solutions, writing code and supporting it. That's the difference to me.

  • Programmer. (programmer) - writes code according to requirements, gives engineers for testing, knows nothing about operation
  • Developer. (software developer) Works on the end2end product from requirements to operation of its solution The first are mainly in companies with functional wells, the second - in food companies with good engineering processes. The difference in median salary is also evident. 2023 It differed by almost a third ~100k $ vs. ~132k.

If we go back to the article itself, then in it the authors show on graphs how it happened in recent years. 2 This is due to the development of Gen AI. Separately, they note that this is not the first time that programmers are most affected by automation. S 2003 Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) It began to distinguish between programmers and developers and programmers constantly faced difficulties, while the number of job openings for developers grew and continued to grow. With each new innovation that simplifies or reduces the need for coding—whether it’s services to perform routine tasks, outsourcing, free open source tools, cloud servers, and computing—developers took on more work that used to belong exclusively to programmers.

In general, be developers, not programmers, and automation will not reduce your place, but will help you solve your tasks more efficiently.)

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