Category: employment
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Changing development culture and practices: LLM edition
The popular perception of creating software systems is that it mainly involves writing code. In the 1950s, management treated writing code as a clerical task that just mapped the detailed requirements specified by someone with knowledge of the problem to something a computer could execute. Job titles reflected this division of labour, e.g., coder/programmer, systems […]
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Employment in the software business: we know nothing
Tens of millions of people get paid to work on the creation and maintenance of software systems, by companies employing thousands of developers to those employing a single developer (in the UK there are almost 300K registered software companies; 5% of registered companies). This huge ecosystem is almost completely ignored by the software engineering research […]