Getting obsolete...

[garote]

For a long time now I’ve looked down on the younger generation of programmers mainly because they use frameworks and libraries willy-nilly without understanding how they work and what exactly they do, and call it "programming", or worse yet, "hacking

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[anonymous]

So is all real engineering going to end up being done by the big three cloud providers? And anybody not employed by them to be condemned to "JavaScript/UI" activities? I can imagine backend jobs being eaten by "serverless" in ten years. I have no idea what I would do in such a case.

On the bright side, if you are right about the AI progress developers themselves could be made obsolete.

[garote]

I don't think developers will ever be obsolete ... we all pedal too fast on our stationery bicycles of learning, to let that happen... :D

Javascript/UI stuff is moving down in the stack and getting crowded by variants, but I don't think it's gong to eclipse other development, because the other frameworks that browsers rely on are also getting so much more sophisticated and flexible. Swift and Java are not going anywhere, and neither is C for certain sub-tasks. But why run any of this locally when you can code it up through a portal and run it ""somewhere"", 10,000 instances at a time, managed in a swarm, or instantly on a collective of pre-assigned devices?

[ex_juan_gan]

Sure.

And bytes and loops are getting obsolete.

[garote]

Loops are for people who don't know recursion! :D

[ex_juan_gan]

Wow, that's level 3!