The assumptions that programmers do semiskilled blue-collar work -- and hence that they are virtually interchangeable and can be hired and fired at will -- are reminiscent of Taylorism as it came to be understood. Yet there can hardly be any domain in which those assumptions are less appropriate than software development.
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