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> programmers in the past were more productive I'm not sure how we'd be able to define productivity in a meaningful way to compare. I feel like programmers cr
by tomnipotent 5y ago
> programmers in the past were more productive
I'm not sure how we'd be able to define productivity in a meaningful way to compare.
I feel like programmers create more value for business today than ever before, even if they're not necessarily writing the code creating that value.
- pjerem 5y ago> I feel like programmers create more value for business today than ever before, even if they're not necessarily writing the code creating that value. This is true, but I don't see what the tooling or the productivity have to do with that. It's just that there is an always increasing demand for new programs.
- rightbyte 5y agoDo we? Having a Cobol or Basic programmer writing a simple 500 line goto mess for a administrative task was probably way more usefull for businesses than today's "take it or leave it" approach with high level applications programming. Good luck asking for a specific ad hook feuture in those monster code bases as a lowly system user. The bar for "creating value" is way to high today and the simplicity is gone in favour of expensive complexity ofent for no good reason. Excel (from the user perspective) is probably the last man standing of the simple way.
- tomnipotent 5y agoIn what world did programmers stop writing hacky 500 line messes to automate random tasks? > The bar for "creating value" is way to high today It's actually really low, and usually just starts with doing work.