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>No, the real trend to watch here is not that the cloud providers are making it easier for non-technical people to code (although they are), but that they are straight-up reducing the number of people required to deliver technical solutions.

Prehistoric era: Agriculture and domestication are straight-up reducing the number of hunter-gatherers

1800s: Cotton mills reducing the number of manual textile manufacturers

1908: Internal combustion engine straight-up reducing the number of horse stablehands

-Vacuum tubes reducing the number of human-computers

-Cell phone reducing the number of switchboard operators

Not seeing the problem here.



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