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Every generation sees a new technology that old timers loudly worry "will destroy programming as a profession".

I'm old enough to remember when that new and destructive technology was Java, and the greybeards were all heavily invested in inline assembly as an essential skill of the serious programmer.

The exact same 3 steps in the article happened about a decade ago during the "javascript bootcamp" craze, and while the web stack does grow ever more deeply abstracted, things do seem to keep on trucking along...



I'm not old enough to remember these, but they were certainly more disruptive than AI has been so far (reverse chronological order):

- The word processor

- The assembly line

- Trains

- Internal combustion engines

I do remember some false starts from the 90's:

- Computer animation will put all the animation studios out of business

- Software agents will replace all middlemen with computers


Technically, we automated most programing when we got rid of punch cards and created assembly languages.




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