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There was also "It is 1984. We have 5G languages. We don't need programmers any more." 😕
There was also "It is 1984. We have 5G languages. We don't need programmers any more." 😕
Roy Brander🍁I see the comic only has so many panels, but you skipped "Fourth Generation Languages", which came out as I finished my CompSci degree in 1985 and we were told it would mean no more programming in a class.
And the years when all programming would go to India, the way all manufacture had gone to China.
Maybe a longer comic.
@RoyBrander @kevinmarks.com I need so many extra frames. There's a frame for COBOL, HyperCard, InterfaceBuilder (I remember a demo from Jobs of that at NeXT HQ in 1993 that said you didn't need programmers), XSLT, Jupyter…
Somebody with talent or AI access needs to do one of those graveyards where they all have tombstones.
Only COBOL pre-dates me and I have your memory's back on the rest.
The NeXT demo was particularly impressive!
...but Visual Basic and VBA, where you had the code-obsoleting power of the spreadsheet, connected to VB for zero UI coding...well it had a big impact on my productivity.
But only mine. Nobody else programmed, not even if 95% was pre-done.
Simon Willcocks@kevinmarks.com I was choosing my options and hadn't even seen a computer in 1979 (maybe a teletype connected to the local university) but I was told by someone not to bother doing O-level computer studies because computers will program themselves. Fortunately, I ignored him.
datarama@kevinmarks.com It might just be me, but LLMs *feel* different than all the other dumb approaches that were supposed to get rid of us.
@datarama and they are -- other solutions still produce the same output every time they're run, and while all of the previous solutions were limited, and their limits were well known, this one is still limited but its limits aren't well known so people keep trying to use it for things it can't do
another key difference is that with prior low/no code solutions, the people who built the thing understood how it worked and could make changes to it if necessary
👽🐦🦇🐉💻@kevinmarks.com gofundme exists, we don't need governments any more.
Sav Tripodi@kevinmarks.com I was constantly told in university many years ago that all the jobs in australia would be shipped off to India and that I was wasting my time. Yet I have been in the industry for over 10 years running a software company in australia, go figure.