PlumbersMightHaveItSafe

It’s come up a weird amount of times in conversations. Plumbers. Someone you don’t really think a whole lot about unless you’re trying to finish a house to make it liveable like I unfortunately am, or if you’re in a bad spot with an existing house. Trades now are a funny thing that come up in tech circles, because this is looking like a way safer place to have a job than whatever it is we’re doing with all this software and typing and that. I even heard this in a talk where the speaker said yeah, you should be telling your kids to be plumbers because look I’ve just eliminated junior developers wholesale with this multiple coding agent comborama thingamabob I whipped up.

Plumbers might have it kind of safe for a while. Tilers too. The architecture of our lives, and specifically of our houses, will not likely change all that much for a couple of decades. There will still be pipes all over in the floors and walls and there will not be the infrastructure too easily, meaning mechanically or automatically, install it or change it without humans. So far.

Anyone working with words and images, is, well, sort of fucked. Words and images can and already are being solved as engineering problems. The ultimate irony though is that engineers have also, unwittingly or not, engineered themselves out of the equation as well. Well at least they have a white van in their future as well.