Comment by shaiansvdid

> You have to understand that developers are a cost center and not sales people

What definition of cost center are you using? If a developer makes a widget that generates my company more money, they’re not a cost center.

> Starting about a year or two after I started doing full time JavaScript programming in the corporate space employers started looking at solutions to turn developers into commodities because they were spending too much on hiring with disappointing results

This has been the case in tech since…forever? What can be automated is, with the end result being more tech work for a broader market. If the market is finally at capacity (or AI is capable of doing everything a human dev does, but then most white collar jobs are gone) then dev jobs are gone. Otherwise, it’s just new tools that enable more work to get done.