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It's like "we invented Fortran so there will be no need for so many developers"
by karczex 1y ago
It's like "we invented Fortran so there will be no need for so many developers"
- nathanfig 1y agoAn interesting parallel because there were undoubtedly some people who worried we would lose something important in the craft of instruction-level programming, and almost certainly we have in relative terms. But in absolute numbers I am confident we have more low-level programmers than we did before Fortran. And if I were to jump into instruction-level programming today I would start by asking an LLM where to begin...
- marcosdumay 1y agoFortran was a much larger jump in productivity than agentic coding...
- KurSix 1y agoYet here we are, with more demand for developers than ever