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Reactionary Programmer's avatar

I'll leave a comment here about my vision for the future of programming: With the advent of AI, the market will be debugged, and the mechanistic developer who only knows how to press buttons will be dismissed from companies. Consider the mechanistic programmer as someone who rejects books, like math, for example. The bar for entering companies will be raised, and knowledge will ultimately need to be at least twice what it was before. I'm guessing that low-level programming will gain more traction on one end, while the increasingly higher level of abstraction of the art of programming increases exponentially on the other. However, there's something here that some people don't want to see because it hurts: the mathematical framework of new programmers will need to be much greater than before, as well as the logical capacity to mathematically interpret algorithms in order to optimize them once they're generated by AI.

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John Good's avatar

Loved this article. I actually deleted this from my inbox while quick clearing but something I noticed in the subject caught my subconscious mind and I undid the delete.

Then the writing hooked me and had me full tilt reading all the way to end. Superb.

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Alastair Danley-Cox's avatar

I loved this read. Really captures the excitement of the industry, and the balance between purist and pragmatic

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Mathew Butler's avatar

Great writing - really conveys 3X well. 🏆

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