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| | Ask HN: What is a programmer's domain knowledge outside of coding? | |
3 points by yagodragon on Oct 31, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments
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| | Let's imagine a future where many more professionals from different disciplines know how to code. For example, mechanical engineers, biologists, economists, journalists, all should know python. Tools like jupiter notebook, online REPLs, serverless etc, become even better making the job of a coder almost irrelevant in some cases. Do you believe coding will become just a tool that professionals use to build things around their domain knowledge? Do you have or do you wish you had specific knowledge on something outside of coding so that you can take advantage of your coding skills to build useful things? |
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Where do we go? There always have been the frontiers of computing, this is where CS sepcialists are required. The old saying, that an IT guy works hard on making his own position superfluous, has always been a bit true in some sense. I don't think that's bad at all.
I which computer scientists would be aware of their competences but could acknowledge that they never gain as much domain specific knowledge as the experts they work together with. I've seen quite some computer science guys who thought of themselves like they could replace everybody. That's not quite true.