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Same subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subject Software developers spentthirty years automatingother people's industries… KH Kelsey Hightower — holds since 2026-06-03 Veterans of the 1990s free software movement do not understand the world today’s maintainers work in, and should listen before proposing fixes for it. Veterans of the 1990sfree software movement… TD Thomas Depierre — holds since 2024-04-01 There is still no white-collar apocalypse in the data: you have to squint to see anything, and even junior developer hiring is below trend rather than falling. There is still nowhite-collar apocalypse… AI Alex Imas — holds since 2026-06-04 Software developers probably are engineers after all, on the evidence of the people who did both jobs -- though that research was done before LLMs. Software developersprobably are engineers… HW Hillel Wayne — holds since 2026-07-29 Software engineers behave as though the world exists in the repository, and it does not: the world is production. Software engineersbehave as though the… CM Charity Majors — holds since 2026-08-12 People are unhappy in their careers when the thing they want and the work it takes to get it are out of sync, not because they climbed the wrong ladder. People are unhappy intheir careers when the… JZ Julie Zhuo — holds since 2025-09-21 Letting non-programmers build their own unmaintainable software is still a large step forward, because the alternative was a thousand-page requirements document and an eight-year wait. Letting non-programmersbuild their own… KB Kent Beck — holds since 2026-07-01 Letting non-programmers vibe-code features into a large existing product destroys its architecture, even when every individual change looks defensible. Letting non-programmersvibe-code features into… DH David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2026-08-26 Software's customer is no longer the human but the agent acting on their behalf, and the whole industry has to be refactored around that. Software's customer isno longer the human but… AK Andrej Karpathy — holds since 2026-03-20
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