@dbsmasher.com has been recommending this for a few weeks now too. I think this is invaluable. As you say, it's the learners, the ones who are curious, the ones who want to know who will rise above again.
Writing code doesn't matter. Learning why code is written a certain way does.
We lost the old school sysadmins then because they refused to adopt the new devops models.
It was a loss in jobs for them and a gain for the industry.
(Un)fortunately I expect a similar adjustment this time.
The mediocre developers - that is, the ones who don't make themselves learn how to steer the machine - are the most at risk.
If we're lucky these changes will result in lots of new industries popping up, leading to more jobs like the introduction of cloud computing did.
I'm also not a programmer by nature. I can do it but I don't enjoy it.
Complete agreement about skills atrophy, I'd like to predict a different future:
The most valuable people will be the curious ones. The ones who think broadly about problems and solutions. Everyone else will struggle mightily.
I don't need to know what happens below that most of the time.
And when I do I can go learn about it briefly.
The AI coding shift is similar.
The code doesn't actually matter that much, the outcomes do.
Spec and test for those.
I agree that you need to be able to interpret what is happening today by peeling things back. That's going to become more and more isolated as a need.
Analogy: I need to be able to run strace and understand how a syscall is called and the response.
I've worried about this a lot for the last 3 years.
About 6 months ago I stopped worrying when I was able to consistently get Claude to output tens of thousands of LOC with correct outcomes.
Good code is subjective, good outcomes are not. People are thinking too much about code as something sacred.
Go watch Project Hail Mary.
If you can get an early screening before the main release next week, go.
GO NOW.
30 seconds of gleefulness, Tom, that's all we wanted 😂
Why? Why? WHY? WHY DID YOU DO THIS?
Followed by some light sobbing and quick rocking in the corner.
Seems like everything did :-(
Worse: Google actively made search worse because more searches = more ads = more money.
This is so close to the truth that it's scary
I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...
I quite pride myself as an expert in all things fried. Growing up in the UK it was a matter of civic pride.
Yo I think there's an 8th one hiding behind the bottom one!!!
Good call, thank you for that!
And yeah.. it's phenomenal and horrifying at the same time.
Pulitzer Prize right here.
This is the last photo in that camera before @john-abernathy.bsky.social threw it. This is an incredible shot. Look at the reflection of the people running to him in the phone on the right side, while on the left side LEO is blocking the view of observers and protesters.
Exponentially progressive taxation with broad redistribution to social, educational and community programs.
I would suggest that's the difference today.
When I made my first website in the mid 90s it didn't have any capabilities because those didn't exist. Today they do, and they're core to modern apps.
Your argument is akin to suggesting all modern cars should look and work like Fred Flintstone's?
I'm not disagreeing with you but even simple web apps are super complex *by necessity* today. All of the things I mentioned above are basic features one might expect from a decent-but-still-not-too-complicated site.
And all of this is before I worry about HA/resiliency in deployments.
* The ability to run somewhere, which in this case was Cloudflare Workers
* A local dev environment
* Abuse prevention
* State syncing between devices
* The ability to share
* The ability to star/bookmark...
This weekend I decided to write a "simple" web app: an RSS reader. What started off easy ended up needing:
* A proxy server to bypass CORS
* OAuth to Google
* Config/pref storage and management
* Caching, auto-refresh
* Type-ahead completion is nice, so why not that too..
This opens a whole new (to me) world of thought
If you air fry a burrito, does it still become a chimichanga?
@logik.al
Can be done. But it requires everyone to understand it's done for the greater good, not to get rich.
And maybe if people didn't think they NEEDED to get rich to live long, comfortable lives, we'd be able to pull this off.
Shit, there I go on the socialism again.
SILVIA
I don't disagree :-)
The issue is that almost every company in existence today is already well down a path where they didn't build this in at the start.
So here we are.
