Mastodawn

I first learned how to program in 1984 at 14. The tech press said I'd be obsolete by 25, due to age.

About 1990 tech press said the Japanese were building fifth generation computers to make me obsolete.

In 2000, the dot com bubble bursting was said to make me obsolete.

There's been neural networks, no-code, and more, since then, to make me obsolete.

Now it's LLMs.

Excuse me while I sit here and don't panic.

EDIT: This blew up. Muting the thread for some peace and quiet.

I started programming around 1974 (BASIC/Jean/Algol) and remained stubbornly not obsolete until I retired a couple of years ago.

These days I do occasional programming to scratch my own itches. I couldn't imagine using a stochastic parrot - it would spoil all the fun.