Posts by isos

Engineers on the brink of extinction threaten entire tech ecosystems

Re: Obvious National Security Threat

The pay of engineers is really a problem. I graduated a materials engineering program in 1999 and immediately went into programming. I'm making 2-3x what my friend who stuck it out as a materials engineer is making.

This is what happens when every component no longer comes with an electrical diagram and proprietary components. The engineers you're talking about grew up in an era where all those things used off the shelf components and came with diagrams detailing how they work. Now it's all proprietary, and if you replace the serialized battery the whole thing stops working.