Re:Now might be the best time to learn software development
by karczex on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @12:02PM
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It's like "we invented Fortran so there will be no need for so many developers"
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Re:Now might be the best time to learn software development
by nathanfig on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @12:36PM
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An 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...
Re:Now might be the best time to learn software development
by marcosdumay on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @02:50PM
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Fortran was a much larger jump in productivity than agentic coding...