Dear developer, are you one AI model away from being replaced?
I design and build software and lead a team of people who do just the same. I don’t work at a FAANG or one of “the big” banks, so I certainly don’t think of myself as any kind of subject matter expert on anything in particular. I’m just a guy who really, really loves software.
As a child of the 80s, I grew up around what could be thought of as the first wave of home computers. My childhood best friend was — for better or worse — a Commodore 64 and then an Amiga 500 (followed by the awesomely powerful Amiga 2000HD — 52MB of hard drive storage! Pwhoar.)
I started experimenting with code when I was around 10 years old. At first it was C64 Basic following arcane instructions sets laid out in cassette tape adorned magazines like ZZap64! and later on the Amiga using long since dead languages like AMOS.
My early teenage nights were spent leaving my Amiga on overnight to render frame after slow frame of seemingly impossible landscapes using Vista fractal generators. Better than any alarm clock was the lure of waking first thing in the morning to find the meagre 30 frames of animation had finished calculating, my reward a 10 second ‘flythrough’ of a mountain landscape.
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