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0 pointsbarrkel7d ago0 comments

There are people who move into the future, and there are those who stick their heads in the sand. It was ever thus.

There's still room for something vaguely IDE shaped, but it's not going to be code oriented.

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pjmlp7d ago

I have been coding since 1986, pleny of futures have come by.

Eventually you learn to figure out which gold diggers will get lucky when the caravan crosses town.

barrkelOP7d ago

I've been coding since 1990 myself. But I'm all in on AI.

I'm long past the need to code everything by hand; I've written editors, compilers, DOS TSR routines in assembler, disassemblers, debuggers, all sorts. I don't see any coding mountains remaining that I have a burning desire to climb. When I interact with an agent, I'm concerned about architectural nudges and fairly high-level details. And I anticipate climbing further up the abstraction stack over time.

Product management is increasingly vital; it's becoming very, very easy to implement the wrong thing, and you need to rip it out again. Editorial discipline is needed.

pjmlp6d ago

What I see where I am standing is that many don't code anything more, they get shown the door instead.

Because between SaaS, iPaas, Vercel, Nelify, Workato, Boomi, automatic translations, content generation, among many other tools, the team can be reduced to one third of the size it was like a decade ago, for the same content delivery.

Still, many of those tools have IDE integrations for the lucky ones that stay on board.

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