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firebreathingduck

@baldur outstanding.

Another way to express labor arbitrage is "making engineers fungible".

Daniel Sockwell has an interesting video on this with respect to programming languages. youtu.be/MCKozTfcWr4?si=dkk17B

@baldur it's 40 minutes, so I won't be offended if you lose interest. But he focuses, for example, on the way Google's Go language tries to make engineers interchangeable while many other languages do not.

(Edit: I am not against Go at all. I just thought the idea is worth considering.)

@firebreathingduck There are many great observations in the post by @baldur, and in this video from @codesections (about the goals of programming groups at big tech vs developers creating "free software").

I see similarities in the tool stacks used in the #DataScience / #DataEngineering realm. It feels like there is a push to use no/low code, cookie-cutter, closed sourse, costly, inefficient, obfuscating tools that make it difficult to verify you're getting the "correct" answer, and a purposeful move away from craft and excellence. Commoditize, commercialize, and cross-#enshittify is the credo.

@firebreathingduck @baldur This is the explicit purpose of Go.

EDIT: I see you mentioned that Go is brought up in the video.