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>I'd guess that easily 75% of the tasks being performed by programmers in 1999 are fully automated by APIs and frameworks today. Not defending this guy, but it
by ryhamz 10y ago
>I'd guess that easily 75% of the tasks being performed by programmers in 1999 are fully automated by APIs and frameworks today.
Not defending this guy, but it's not like we are still making the same product (pastry equivalent) as 1999. We go through the automation and then build on top, right?
- Sacho 10y agoI find it hard to believe that pastries and pastry-making haven't evolved with the introduction of better tools, materials, different recipes, etc..
- logicallee 10y agoI think everyone completely missed my point. You can hire someone (who has no baking skills) away from starbucks and teach them to follow an exact recipe precisely, in a few hours. You can't hire someone with no programming skills (doesn't know what a loop or if statement is) and train them to join your programming team in a few hours or even a few days. It's just not possible, unless they learn miraculously quickly. I think other respondents might have forgotten what it means not to be able to program at all, or what it means to follow a recipe precisely. You can't compare the two.