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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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Michael Koltan

@liw You're perfectly riight. There is no reason at all to panic. It will be people like us they need to clean up the mess, when the hype winds down.
Actually my job in the last years I worked in the industry was already to clean up the mess incompetent coders left behind. That's one of reasons why I quit. It was so boring (although well paid).
So there is nothing new...