ericbombSep 13, 2023

Everyone with your exact job title in your industry vanishes, how long until awful things happen?

https://lemmy.world/post/4994042

Everyone with your exact job title in your industry vanishes, how long until awful things happen? - Lemmy.world

I’m a support engineer for dental software. So difficult issues won’t get immediate resolutions, and instead development will actually have to fix things because offices will be crying at them for a fix instead of at me. But the world won’t end.

Show threadkescusaySep 13, 2023
Ah cripes, I’m literally a “software developer.” Modern civilization is so, so fucked.
Show threadericbomb

That would be a very strange death as well.

I feel like biggest problem would be hackers wouldn’t vanish, but no developers would be around to fix issues.

Like tomorrow and the next day would feel the same as today.

But what about when a new Microsoft exploit is found? Or a medical software can’t handle a new treatment?

We wouldn’t die instantly, but first world country tech would just slowly start to betray us day by day without updates.

Sep 13, 2023 at 6:24pmWeb
Show threadDemonbookerSep 13, 2023
Yeah, software dev disappearance I feel like would result in a slow Jenga game of things becoming more unstable until they all fall down at once. Unless
Show thread5714Sep 13, 2023
Trade, logistics rely on software maintenance, I guess.