One of my friends lost his job this week. He worked in the chemistry department of a pharmaceutical company, doing something that went completely over my head while he was explaining it to me. What I got from his description was that it was not the kind of work that’
There’s still plenty of industrial workers. The same will be true for programmers as AI proliferates.
These jobs don’t go away, they just become more specialized
But I will agree with the general notion that we as programmers are incredible fortunate to be able to work from anywhere, creatively, without physical labor
Git clone
Ctrl+c
Ctrl+v
At this very moment, I’m at home, waiting for a pipeline to finish, after I copied some code from another of our team’s projects and edited it a bit.
The pipeline config file was also, ofc, copied from another of our projects and had some file paths inside changed.
Sounds like a great DRY culture to me
Copying code is exactly the opposite of DRY lol
whoosh