It's interesting to me how the software industry seems to be shifting from a Build AI Into Everything, to Build Everything With AI:

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It's interesting to me how the software industry seems to be shifting from a Build AI Into Everything, to Build Everything With AI:

I Started Programming When I Was 7. I'm 50 Now, and the Thing I Loved Has Changed | James Randall

I still love developing but the shifts that AI have brought are tectonic and are forcing me to re-evaluate my own relationship to building things

James Randall (www.jamesdrandall.com)

Maybe it's just that I'm the same age as the author, but this part really rings true:

> The abstraction ship sailed decades ago. We just didn’t notice because each layer arrived gradually enough that we could pretend we still understood the whole stack. AI is just the layer that made the pretence impossible to maintain.

And honestly, this is why the #permacomputing ethos seems so vibrant, and necessary to me. Because of the joy in understanding how computing works, and how critically important it is to build and maintain that praxis, even if it is aspirational. There are new generations of people coming up with this cultural understanding. It's not just old CTOs wistfully saying Game Over, who desperately and secretly want it to be that easy to centralize knowledge and skill...and power.