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I think you confused personal development with career development. A job is a means to an end and should not be a huge concentration of your personal development.
> Again, programming is a good example of a predictable domain, one created to produce the same outputs given the same inputs. If it doesn’t do that, that’s 99.9999% likely to be on you, not the language. Other domains are much less predictable, like equity investing, or psychiatry, or maybe, meteorology.
> Entrepreneur and publisher Tim O’Reilly has a nice phrase that is applicable at this point. He argues investors and entrepreneurs should “create more value than you capture.” The technology industry started out that way, but in recent years it has too often gone for the quick win, usually by running gambits from the financial services playbook.
Great point. A lot of folks forget that not all programming jobs can/should be outsourced. There's value in outsourcing but specifications and contexts change that.
> In essence what has happened in software development is that the level of abstraction has gone up while the machine has taken over more and more of the nitty gritty details. From punchcards, to assembly, to COBOL, C, Perl, Java, Python, Erlang, Rust.
I've had friends and peers contact me in regards to the AI, GPT, et al headlines and they're always surprised at my calmness. You've written out exactly what is happening and why there shouldn't be any worry regarding jobs. I think the worry is generally under the premise that everyone has to upskill themselves which is against human nature. Folks are feeling uncomfortable but this is another cycle.
> But the rigidity of what is needed to specify a program that really does what you want hasn't. Especially evidenced by the fact that recent programming language developments often have a specific area where they shine, but not raising the abstraction level that much.
Another great point. Like you wrote, there really is a need for "translators" for programming languages and it's not going away anytime soon. If anyone has played around or even just read/watch through folks using AI/GPT/Etc. you'll come to notice that the tech is not "stable". It's only good in limited instances.
Finally, the headlines and copywriting of most of the pieces and journalism coming out is definitely hit and miss. A mix of pessimism and optimism. It's important to remember what we are witnessing is another technological cycle and another cycle in general if you want to looking at a bigger scale but that's another discussion for another time.
If you start at #1 you will eventually start #2 to apply what you learnt at #1.