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Big Tech Killed the Golden Age of Programming

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128 points taylorlunt | 1 comments | 30 Jul 25 14:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.242s | source
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rvz ◴[30 Jul 25 16:06 UTC] No.44736000[source]▶
No it did not.

It killed the golden age of mediocre software developers, which includes the over inflated role of web development which that can be safely done by LLMs.

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1. barnabee ◴[30 Jul 25 17:06 UTC] No.44736751[source]▶
Yep, it should be no surprise that things that ought to require no code or very little code but currently require tons of it are not safe long term careers for programmers.

If we can make self driving taxis, we can also make putting documents on the internet not require tens of thousands of lines of JavaScript.