How Would My Life Change Without Programming

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One of my friends lost his job this week. He worked in the chemistry department of a pharmaceutical company, doing something that went completely over my head while he was explaining it to me. What I got from his description was that it was not the kind of work that’

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Industrial workers in the 20th century probably never imagined being replaced by robots, but it’s happened on a large scale.

There's still plenty of industrial workers. The same will be true for programmers as AI proliferates.

These jobs don't go away, they just become more specialized

But I will agree with the general notion that we as programmers are incredible fortunate to be able to work from anywhere, creatively, without physical labor
- creatively
  
  Git clone
  
  Ctrl+c
  
  Ctrl+v
  
  At this very moment, I'm at home, waiting for a pipeline to finish, after I copied some code from another of our team's projects and edited it a bit.
  
  The pipeline config file was also, ofc, copied from another of our projects and had some file paths inside changed.
  
  Sounds like a great DRY culture to me
  
  Copying code is exactly the opposite of DRY lol
  
  whoosh