Mastodawn

Lars Wirzenius Mar 18

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.

#rant

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

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Mike Fraser

@liw I've been around as long in tech but not a programmer aside from shell scripts, etc. I've tried no code, low code, etc with limited success throughout the years. In the last three months I've built several functional applications that have been on my personal wish list for a long time, all with just a prompt and a couple of hours.

You will not be out of a job but your job is definitely going to change dramatically.