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Right but just like most people were looking for a cheap shirt, pot or chair, most people are looking for 'cheaper way to make computers do what I want'. These changes didn't happen because people hated art or failed to inquire with weavers, potters and joiners.

>>pvg+(OP)
But woodworkers still woodwork just fine with mass production. Just there are mass produced things. And there are not. So then there can be mass-produced code and there can not be. The article feel all or none and I do not think that translate to woodworking or software.

>>bradly+a3
I don't think the article says that. People still write games for the NES in assembly but that's effectively unrelated to current software development practice.

>>pvg+54
Again, this comparison that professional woodworking is anything like NES game building is just so far from my experience. Cabinet makers (and to a less extent furniture makers) are numerous and very successful.

Mass production doesn't have to eliminate the alternative to exist. The same way fast-food and cheap groceries are not a threat to quality restaurants.

>>bradly+M01
This 'only one can exist' is something you brought in, though. Neither the article nor I am saying that.