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Frontend javascript programming is already blue collar. Very little science left in most tasks, most of the time you are just smashing together packages and declaratively building interfaces to the point that most of the hard work has been done for you.

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I'd say CRUD type stuff is moving in that direction too.

Yes, the more standardized something is the more it just becomes an assembly line with very little room for discovering creative solutions.

That's what they said in 1988 when I started my career. Seriously, the same sort as the article writer were saying the exact same thing in the 1990's. Nothing has changed. They were wrong then and are wrong now.

Someday, they may be right, but that doesn't make their "analysis" any more valid. Broken clock and all that, don't ya know.

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