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I always enjoy reading deeply technical writeups like these. I only wonder how much more rare they may or may not get in the AI era.

by maz1b 1y ago

senda 1y ago
i think the shift will be from craftmens to trademens in regards to general software engineers, but these are type of writes up stem of a artisan style all to its own.
- eduardofcgo 1y ago
  We have been seeing this shift for a while, where "software engineers" graduate from 3 month bootcamps. Except now most likely they will not be earning 500k making crud apps.
  - sitzkrieg 1y ago
    and thats a good thing
  - throwaway2037 1y ago
    I call bullshit. What 3mo bootcamp grads were earning 500k writing CRUD apps? Zero.
- nonethewiser 1y ago
  Compare python devs of today to fortran devs of the 60s. Something like that distance. Maybe more. But the trend isnt new.
- throwaway2037 1y ago
  What about the incredible front end Devs that only know JS/CSS/HTML? They can still be true craftspeople in their art, be it cross-browser/platform issues or performance tweaking.
Cthulhu_ 1y ago
I don't think they will get more rare; there will always be a top % of engineers that do deep dives. I hope anyway. But AI won't replace them, nor did the past 50+ years of software development innovation. There's millions (tens of millions?) of higher programming language developers that don't know the difference between stack or heap besides maybe some theory they half remember from school but they don't care because they don't have to think about it for their day job.
- throwaway2037 1y ago
  If your whole career will be using higher order languages with very little data stored on stack (vs heap), why should those programmers care? It seems like normal progression of more abstraction in the tools that we use. Similarly, I have programmed a lot of C and C++ in my career and I never once need assembly language. (I am expecting someone to pop in the convo here and tell me about how I am a terrible C/C++ programmer because I don't know any assembly.)
  - chrz 1y ago
    Why should I care is a awful catchohrase.

I always enjoy reading deeply technical writeups like these. I only wonder how much more rare they may or may not get in the AI era.

by maz1b 1y ago

I always enjoy reading deeply technical writeups like these. I only wonder how much more rare they may or may not get in the AI era.

senda 1y ago

i think the shift will be from craftmens to trademens in regards to general software engineers, but these are type of writes up stem of a artisan style all to its own.

eduardofcgo 1y ago
We have been seeing this shift for a while, where "software engineers" graduate from 3 month bootcamps. Except now most likely they will not be earning 500k making crud apps.
- sitzkrieg 1y ago
  and thats a good thing
- throwaway2037 1y ago
  I call bullshit. What 3mo bootcamp grads were earning 500k writing CRUD apps? Zero.
nonethewiser 1y ago
Compare python devs of today to fortran devs of the 60s. Something like that distance. Maybe more. But the trend isnt new.
throwaway2037 1y ago
What about the incredible front end Devs that only know JS/CSS/HTML? They can still be true craftspeople in their art, be it cross-browser/platform issues or performance tweaking.

Cthulhu_ 1y ago

I don't think they will get more rare; there will always be a top % of engineers that do deep dives. I hope anyway. But AI won't replace them, nor did the past 50+ years of software development innovation. There's millions (tens of millions?) of higher programming language developers that don't know the difference between stack or heap besides maybe some theory they half remember from school but they don't care because they don't have to think about it for their day job.

throwaway2037 1y ago
If your whole career will be using higher order languages with very little data stored on stack (vs heap), why should those programmers care? It seems like normal progression of more abstraction in the tools that we use. Similarly, I have programmed a lot of C and C++ in my career and I never once need assembly language. (I am expecting someone to pop in the convo here and tell me about how I am a terrible C/C++ programmer because I don't know any assembly.)
- chrz 1y ago
  Why should I care is a awful catchohrase.