A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft | The New Yorker
Discovered: Dec 8, 2023 08:38 A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft ¦ The New Yorker <– it ain’t over until it’s over :-) coding isn’t going away in the next 5 years but what do i know :-) –> QUOTE: So maybe the thing to teach isn’t a skill but a spirit. I sometimes think of what I might have been doing had I been born in a different time. The coders of the agrarian days probably futzed with waterwheels and crop varietals; in the Newtonian era, they might have been obsessed with glass, and dyes, and timekeeping. I was reading an oral history of neural networks recently, and it struck me how many of the people interviewed—people born in and around the nineteen-thirties—had played with radios when they were little. Maybe the next cohort will spend their late nights in the guts of the A.I.s their parents once regarded as black boxes. I shouldn’t worry that the era of coding is winding down. Hacking is forever.