News Summary

• Since at least the start of my career, software engineers have been considered white-collar.
• But what if that assumption has been incorrect?
• What if we were actually blue-collar, skilled tradespeople all along?
• We do the same thing — that is, we make or fix stuff — except we work in bits rather than atoms.
• Software engineers are discovering that, just like anyone else in a skilled trade, they actually can be outpaced by technology.
• So we do what other skilled traders have done: figure out how to use the new technology to do the jobs we used to do by hand.