A lot of #thoughtleaders will tell you that work is changing, the robots are coming, it’s all going to change and you’ve got to get ready for the future of work. But we’ve found that it’s already happened, and you can thank your friendly developer for showing us all the way.
Take a look at how developers have already changed what work looks like:
- Open Source. Imagine sharing your work for everyone to see. On the internet. Not the most famous of tolerant places. And yet, for years now developers have been sharing their work with open source. So much of the internet is built on open source code that we wouldn’t be here without it.
- Working in public. What’s the first thing that happens when developers get access to something like Slack? They wire it up so that every trello ticket, every commit to Github, gets sent into a room through an API. Talk about transparency.
- Remote work. Developers aren’t about to let a thing like not being in the office stop them from getting stuff done. Remote work stems from laziness, impatience and hubris, the three virtues of a great programmer.
- Robots have taken over their jobs. Not least because developers are the ones writing the code. They will famously replace you with a small shell script at the first opportunity. Developers are coding themselves into a zen of singularity where they rise up on a loosely coupled collection of open source libraries that have automated everything worth automating.
- Imagination is the greatest skill. It’s never been about lines of code. The best developers hate verbosity and anything over-engineered. Their imagination, their tendency towards mental plate-spinning, is their greatest gift. They’re at the forefront of the knowledge and imagination economy.
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