Didn’t most of those programmers from the 60s and 70s have like, Master’s degrees in mathematics? Computers were massive, expensive machines that were used largely by universities and research facilities - you definitely couldn’t buy your own and teach yourself how to program it like you can now.
Yes, this is true. My mom learned programming in the 60s, and it was a completely different beast.
Dom Eyles knew fuck all about computers and mathematics but responded to a job offer at MIT and wrote a program that guided the lander to the moon.
His Wikipedia page says he had a BSc in mathematics from Boston University, unless this is a different guy.
To be fair, those punch cards programs had a lot of bugs that we only found years later because our tools made it easier to catch them.
“it works as long as you don’t fuck it up” has always been a strong programming mentality.
It works on my machine… the only one we’re all using
this is vewy mean!! :<
i know how to write propper pwogwams, oki!?
yeah, i might not punch my code into cards and i might need a compiler and interpreter, but i can make the computer say hello world in the console window as well!!
Yeah well good luck writing hello world in html by punching holes in cardboard
python…
We need to understand code and the logic to write one but we don’t need to spend an eternity to keep up with all the updates and rewriting the already written codes so we need someone else to speed up that process for us to make our ideas reality without the extra effort that could now be avoided with ai all we need to do is fix and polish the errors in the code, hear it’s suggestions for the work plans and improve them because honestly ai is still not that smart to figure out everything on its own and by then we be living the boss life with ai being the wage-slave that we don’t even need to pay.
