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.
Ah cripes, I’m literally a “software developer.” Modern civilization is so, so fucked.
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.
Trade, logistics rely on software maintenance, I guess.
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 we figure that the world will got completely ballistic at the prospect of multiple millions of people just vanishing, then the knock on effects won’t really matter.
Working in science, so I guess nothing bad would happen. However, humanity will stop progressing for a while, until people are replaced.
Oh no, the self proclaimed scientists who never tried to disproved their hypothesis in their life will get even worse!
GIS (Geographic Information Systems) Specialist. If you got rid of just the specialists you probably be fine. The techs, analysts, and admins could hold things together. If all of the GIS experts disappeared all together we would probably start getting hungry pretty quick, and the US military would get a lot shittier. basically, anything that relies on a geolocation is kinda screwed. Lots of it has actually been automated so we might be fine for a bit.
Cashier & Customer Service. Who are Karens gonna yell at without us?! Society would collapse immediatly.
I would literally just hide. If I’m not too panicked I’ll think to take snacks with me.
Network Engineer.
The internet becomes more stable because we stop fiddling with the internet routing protocols.
Yep, I’m one as well. No more routes to fuck up. No more vlans to trunk by accident.
I knew it! /s
I’m only joking in the kindest way. Please don’t turn off my precious Internet.
My exact job title? Well, my family is sad, but no one else would notice.
I told Dad not to let you choose your own job title. It doesn’t even fit on a business card. /s
Risk Analyst. Literally nothing would change except quite a few people would be pretty happy they don’t badgered to fill out incident memos
It sounds very good not to have any Unemployed people, but the more you think about it the more dystopian it gets.
I’m physically disabled. So the medical industry would collapse, but it might fix the medical industry too.
I’m a software dev.
Looking at this thread, Lemmy’s userbase would halve.
Corporate IT manager
I’m not sure anyone would notice
Yeah. I was gonna say, could be centuries, could be never.
The great IT managers build teams that can keep working without us. The lousy ones will be doing everyone a favor when they vanish.
That said, if I’m the last one, I’m gonna make a killing as a management consultant.
the work will be done for people with slightly different job titles? there is a lot of different titles that are mostly the same
This is no place for rational thought! /s
Childcare educator, a large amount of people suddenly wouldn’t be able to work because they have no one to watch their children.
Basically the slow death Twitter has been experiencing, but across all of tech.
Senior software engineer. Lots of bugs and mistakes from juniors and associates. Good luck lol.
Are we 100% certain we’re not already in this timeline.
I believe that the many senior SWEs I have met were real - but the state of the Internet does not provide strong evidence that I’m not delusional on that point…
That’s an interesting point. I think that maybe customer facing apps have an issue acquiring or retaining talent because the jobs often suck so badly. I’ve only done one customer facing software job and it was awful. Long hours, insane demands, and harsh management.
It’s less bad in corporate environments surprisingly.
