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.
oh. in 2006, when amazon introduced their "cloud", managers were looking at us in the coffee rooms, saying "time to find a new job, we don't need system engineers anymore". I took a AWS Architect certification, and now I get paid MORE.
They don't get it. It happens ALL THE TIME, yet they don't get it.
And this was just the time i like to remember more. In the meantime, I had a certification of prompt engineer, (meaning: talking) and one as "agentic", which means, scripting on steroid.
If they like it...
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