@peter All the Haskell, Lisp, an C that I wrote in college is not directly related to my career, but learning those languages still helped develop my understanding of many software concepts.

Yes, you will not be able to sit down 3 years from now and immediately bang out a query with window functions, but your brain has still learned the *concept* and you will recognize parallels when encountering similar things in the future.

@carnage4life The coding tools are clearly a big deal, but I’m still on the fence that these are big deal consumer technologies.

FWIW something can be widely used without necessarily being a “big deal”:
- there are fads that fade
- there are incremental technologies that become part of our lives but don’t meaningfully change our lives

@matt_birchler Many years ago, the incident that made me realize Ben Thompson was not worth taking seriously was when he wrote a series of posts arguing against net neutrality, all while claiming to be a supporter of net neutrality.

He writes what he thinks will be the most effective propaganda for the policies he supports rather than clearly and honestly advocating for his actual views.