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> But in reality pretty much anyone who enters software starts off cutting corners just to build things instead of working their way up from nand gates. The ar

> But in reality pretty much anyone who enters software starts off cutting corners just to build things instead of working their way up from nand gates. The article is right in a zoomed-in view (fundamental skills will be rare and essential), but in the big picture the critique in the comment is better (folks rarely start on nand gates). Programmers of the future will have less need to know code syntax the same way current programmers don't have to fuss with hardware-specific machine code. The people who still do hardware-specific code, are they currently in demand? The marketplace is smaller, so results will vary and probably like the article suggests, be less satisfactory for the participant with the time-critical need or demand.

raducu 2y ago
> The article is right in a zoomed-in view. First of all, I think the problems of the industry were long overdue. It started with Twitter and it proved it can be done. AI just made it easier psychologically because it's much easier to explore and modify existing code and not freak out "omg, omg, omg, we've lost this guy and ony he understands the code and we're so lost without him". AI just removes the incentives to hoard talent. I also think of excel/spreadsheets and how it did in fact change accounting industry forever. Every claim the author makes about software developers could have been made about accounting after the advent of electronic spreadsheets. I don't want to even get started on the huge waste and politics in the industry. I'm on the 3rd re-write of a simple task that removes metrics in Grafana which saves the team maybe 50$ monthly. If the team was cut in half, I'm sure we'd simply not do half the bullshit "improvements" we do.