Hermit Programmers Are Dead
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Hermit Programmers Are Dead
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Re: Hermit Programmers Are Dead
#2was this written by GPT-3?
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#3They've been saying this since the 80s. The magical world where prolog/pascal/java/NPM solves all your problems is eternally 3 years away.
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#4I disagree with the article's summary; the tasks listed at the end (planning, documenting, testing, refactoring) are helpful but:
1. There exist successful projects that don't rely on them.
2. They're not in an exclusive relationship to programming (e.g.: a person that focuses just on programming and that write code for themselves can still refactor their code).
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#5> Thus, writing a bunch of code is not going to be a cool thing to do anymore: thinking about how to assembly existing software pieces to solve problems with computers will.
The vast majority of sw projects are exactly that: connecting pipes.
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#6I am a hermit programmer AND I do ML(AI).
Last time I checked was still breathing, thanks for asking.
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#7> Thus, writing a bunch of code is not going to be a cool thing to do anymore: thinking about how to assembly existing software pieces to solve problems with computers will. The vast majority of sw projects are exactly that: connecting pipes.
Where do the pipes come from, though? And it's not just "a" pipe and "b" pipe you are connecting. It's not a "pipe" at all. It's complicated components that can have complicated interactions.
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#8I feel bad saying it but I’m just not willing to read something this long until eventually it comes to the point.
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#9They've been saying this since the 80s. The magical world where prolog/pascal/java/NPM solves all your problems is eternally 3 years away.
Only 3?
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#10They've been saying this since the 80s. The magical world where prolog/pascal/java/NPM solves all your problems is eternally 3 years away.
Rust ;)