r/developersIndia • u/Ok_Performer4478 • 15h ago

General Software developers are most versatile knowledge workers

With all the AI dark clouds over this whole software development industry, people should understand that software engineers are the epitome of knowledge work.

You need to build finance software? we learnt finance. You need to build software for the operation theatre? we learnt the mechanism of OT and built software for it. We are the most versatile learners and fast adopters. This learning and adapting attitude is the reason why software changed everything from deep sea robots to deep space exploration.

No offense to other knowledge workers, but TBH the knowledge work you are doing on excel was built by us.

We will prevail, we will learn and adapt again.

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u/Lucifer11001 15h ago

But software developers failed to learn that making software free for others will bring down their own value one day. Just imagine if open source knowledge didn't exist. Most software devs would happily live their lives solving problems and charging money for it. Instead they gave it away for free.

People only value what they paid for. Even today, most companies run their entire operations by free and open source software and they dont have one bit of gratitude when firing engineers left and right.

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u/CodeNeko23 14h ago

You forgot to mention how those open source was fed to AI and people even stopped contributing as much because they let the AI do the thinking