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At the centre Calling yourself a programmer marks you as a cost to be eliminated; describe yourself instead by the revenue you raised or the costs you cut. Holds PMPatrick McKenzie Read this korrent →

• Similar wording The joy of a programmer is to type the code himself; promoting yourself out of that makes you a project manager of a murder of AI crows. No longer holds DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson
• Similar wording Developers who defined the job as being the only person who could write code have just watched the only thing they were good at get commoditised. Holds KHKelsey Hightower
• Similar wording AI may eventually replace programmers, but the craft of programming will survive the way knitting did, and you were never just a programmer: you are a builder. Holds PSPeter Steinberger
• Similar wording The programmer AI replaces is the one whose purpose is coding itself; an engineer whose purpose is finding problems to solve is not replaceable. Holds JHJensen Huang
• Similar wording The editor does not make the programmer, but never learning your editor well says something about your character as one. Holds THThePrimeagen
• Similar wording Hiring a programmer turns on two things, the cover letter and a real programming test, never the resume, school, grades or pedigree. Holds DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson
• Similar wording The wish to get rid of all the programmers keeps coming back, and programmers ought to ask themselves why, because some of the reason really is about us. Holds KBKent Beck
• Similar wording A manager whose own code finishes every project is adding their value rather than multiplying the team’s. Holds CFCamille Fournier