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The Death of Software Development (mike.tech)

submitted 2 months ago by codeinabox@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] calliope@retrolemmy.com 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (10 children)

The authors of these articles always make it crystal clear how inexperienced they are.

The role has transformed. Engineers are no longer writing software — they’re designing higher-order systems.

Whoa you don’t say?! We’ve only been doing that for thirty years now. Glad you finally noticed.

You know what the major problem has been for the past couple decades of my programming career? Hint: it wasn’t writing the code.

Leave it to a finance bro to think everything he does is “DiSrUpTiNg.” What year is it?

[–] codeinabox@programming.dev -3 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Where did you get the impression that the author is an inexperienced developer and finance bro? The introduces himself as someone who started programming from the age of eleven.

I’m Michael Arnaldi, Founder and CEO of Effectful Technologies — the company behind Effect, the TypeScript library for building production-grade systems. I’ve been programming most of my life. I started at 11 with the goal of cracking video games. Since then, I’ve written code at every level: from kernel development to the highest abstractions in TypeScript.

[–] idriss@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

I started walking 33 years ago, I am by no mean an expert in walking.

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