Simon Cozens2d ago

I keep thinking about camcorders. Imagine being a videographer for the first 10 or 20 years after camcorders went on sale. You'd go through the following thoughts:

"Everyone can make movies? This is going to kill my job."
"Haha, this is trash. My job is safe."
"Quality is getting better but it's still trash."
"It's trash but people are kind of happy with it? For recording memories and having fun it does what they need."
"OK, quality is actually getting decent, you could maybe shoot a pro movie on this. Worried about my job again."
"What is my job? Now that anyone can shoot videos, it's obvious that it's not just pointing a camera and making a movie. It's knowing light, angles, sound, timing. Both the camcorder, and my job, have their place."

Anyway, back to coding.

Show threadMark Dominus

@simoncozens @pozorvlak

I'm wrapping up a project where I did the back end, and Claude did the front end under supervision of a nonprogrammer, and I'm convinced even more than before that programming as a profession will continue to exist, and probably in a better form.

Related: my kid was concerned that generative AI art would destroy the need for human artists, and I don't believe that either. If art survived the invention of photography it'll survive this.

Mar 25 at 2:26pmWeb
Show threadSimon Cozens2d ago
@mjd @pozorvlak I'm old enough to remember when the usual job title was "Analyst/Programmer" - a new term to suggest someone who did both of the old jobs of Systems Analyst and Programmer. If we all go back to just being Systems Analysts it would be no bad thing.