Posted on 07/19/2025 10:19:32 AM PDT by Twotone
Labor shortage or wage shortage?
My advice to coders is forget about languages.
All webapps do is to generate HTML, JavaScript and CSS, that’s it! Master those things, and the underlying protocols and understand fully how they work.
As far as the languages themselves, it’s important to know what each one is good at and what it isn’t good at.
And now, another skill you will need is the ability to evaluate LLMs, and which ones are best suited for your particular requirements, based on abilities and the cost of utilizing the models.
Only problem with being a craftsman is they don’t want to pay and when the economy goes south construction stops
We are definitely heading towards very interesting times, I sure am glad I am set to retire in a few years. I don’t envy people in the 20s and 30s right now.
No the trouble we’re having is people coming to work on time, ready to work, and can pass a drug test.
My son starts them at 30 and lunch... and they learn a trade.
Construction site a very dangerous place.
We’re not coders.
12 foot of black pipe and a valve.
Ever see what happens after a gas leak?
That’s why I get paid so much.
I retired 2022
With all these robots fabricating everything, whose gonna buy it if everyone is unemployed
Add to that the endless chasm of Youtube videos with previews showing a scowling, bug-eyed, constipated-looking “expert” with an all-caps title demanding viewers “NEVER DO THIS YOURSELF...”
I work around bright people who have never changed their own oil, fixed an appliance, painted a shed, changed brake pads, etc. “Just pay the professional to do it”...
Professionals learned how to do it. So can anyone else with proper effort... particularly those who don’t have money to throw away at every turn. This world is full of people who live to tell others what they can’t do.
I did concrete forms and roofing before getting into my field.
In the end, you do the job you can find if it means putting food on the table
“- planned and forecasted what goods to buy, where to source them, negotiated contracts, etc.
-determined what goods to deliver as well as when and where to deliver them
- funded, updated, and tracked vehicle production and servicing schedules
-determined electricity demands based on new construction as well as infrastructure changes”
Every single example you listed will most likely be replaced by AI.
Want to be an expert on concrete?
It’s white, it’s hard, and it’s cracks.😁
Want to be an expert on asphalt?
It’s black
It’s hot
Don’t touch it
AI is nothing but a bunch of Indians pretending to be AI.
https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/business/27127-builder-ai-collapse-700-indian-engineers-behind-fake-ai-exposed.html
As for replacing those things with programming - good luck. Several companies have already tried replacing them with programming only to suffer catastrophic results.
I learned from this video that we are in dire need of welders and solderers, tool and die makers, metal fabricators, and machinists.
I Tried To Make Something In America (The Smarter Scrubber Experiment) - Smarter Every Day 308
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZTGwcHQfLY
“- planned and forecasted what goods to buy, where to source them, negotiated contracts, etc.
-determined what goods to deliver as well as when and where to deliver them
- funded, updated, and tracked vehicle production and servicing schedules
-determined electricity demands based on new construction as well as infrastructure changes”
A just machine
To make big decisions
Programmed by fellas
With compassion and vision
We’ll be clean
When their work is done
We’ll be eternally free
Yes, and eternally young
What a beautiful world
This will be
What a glorious time
To be free
Let me offer a new scenario. What If you could purchase a robot for 100k to do grueling farm chores, but you would then have to pay out 5k a year in repairs and maintenance, would that be preferable to hiring a human hand ( on strictly monetary basis) ?
Absolutely. The initial purchase price would be an immediate tax deduction and the yearly cost would be expensed. There would be no payroll tax on the maintenance fees. It would be worth the amount you suggest even if the work performed had to be process driven meaning a scheduled pattern with no initiative required on the part of the robot. It would only have to behave as a robo vacuum or lawn mower to be valuable.
Exactly!
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