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People often ask me "How did you learn how to hack?" The answer: by reading. This page is a collection of the blog posts and other articles that I have accumulated over the years of my journey. Enjoy!

The author of this post has been a software developer for over 30 years. Over the course of the years, they have heard "the end of software engineering as a profession" over and over again.

In 1983, it was time for the Multimedia age. Adding sounds and videos was made websites way better. You put a video tag in HTML and your job was ton; everyone was going to be a a sound engineer for UX products. Obviously, UX is still around.

In 2000, the IntelliJ IDE came out. Autocomplete was there. JavaDocs in the IDE. Feedback on compiling before even compiling the code. His friend claimed that was the end of our job. It substantially helped with the quantity of the code with some of their code in between.

They discuss two times they automated a job away: once for themselves and another time for somebody else. The "somebody else" case was around migration of help care systems from MUMPS to a more modern relational system. The author automated 85% of it, gave this person and the code but they still had a job. For themselves, it was updates an HTML page with mental health care providers via a long process from reading emails, opening excel sheets and more. When the work was done, they just moved to something else.

The dot com bubble was the next one. Software went from discs to websites written in JavaScript. The widespread Internet came true. Many people lost their jobs but many more were gained.

"This is indeed a set of passive-aggressive jabs on the continuing assault on our senses by the LLM hype lobby." is the quote at the end. LLM's aren't going to completely take our jobs but it was just change.