Yacine on Job Anxiety: Ask the Automatic Problem Fixer to Fix Your Unemployment
yacineMTB · x · 2026-09-21
Following up on his 'programmer as a vanished occupation' thread, Yacine offers a wry take: if your job is fixing problems, you'll never be out of work — until the automatic problem fixer arrives, at which point we'll just ask it to fix the fact that you don't have a job. So don't worry too much.
Related event: Yacine jokes that programmers may become a forgotten profession(2 posts)→
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