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I think there's a kind of pyramid. From the small number of people at the top who make the hardware, to a larger number making the OS, to a larger number making various libraries, to the most people (with least technical-skill requirements) making products by tacking API's together. The bottom of the pyramid may be increasing in size the fastest, meaning the most jobs (and if the labor supply can't keep up, we get this backwards system where the highly-trained engineers make less than far-less-skilled API users), but those jobs at the top of the pyramid haven't gone away, they've just been eclipsed.



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