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Everyone with your exact job title in your industry vanishes, how long until awful things happen? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by ericbomb@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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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.

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[-] kescusay@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Ah cripes, I'm literally a "software developer." Modern civilization is so, so fucked.

[-] ericbomb@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] Demonbooker@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

[-] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago

Trade, logistics rely on software maintenance, I guess.

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