• lad@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    For me, the main takeaway is ‘programmers nowadays seem to have a life and we need to adapt to that’. Well, it’s a good thing when people have something except for their work, I think. It feels like this is going to slow down the industry a bit, but I don’t think it’s a bad thing. Besides, we’re getting better and better tools, the AI is on the rise, so maybe we will be able to be as productive as before while not investing so much time.

    As a side note, I feel like I don’t belong to the ‘passionate’ generation the author refers to, but even then I am curious enough to sometimes dig into the problem. I’d even go to a stretch to say that it’s not a passion for computers and programming that discerns good programmers but curiosity, and it is more often can be seen in very different people and is less destructive as a personal trait, I believe.

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      1 year ago

      Let’s face it it’s going to be muchh harder to “get a life” with programming productivity tools instead of just giving extra revenue to whatever corporation you’re working for.

      • lad@programming.dev
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        1 year ago

        I hope we’re going to have the corporation eat it and stop squeezing every last drop out of devs. But that is yet to be seen and isn’t certain, unfortunately