How it felt to be a software developer before ai.

Look what they took from us

They took everything. We have nothing left

How the mighty have fallen

the bear is a regex you wrote six months ago

Man I had a book on regex that I got back in 2011 and they invented agi before I even finished it

Bro really thought he could gatekeep forgetting semicolons

@0xRizzler Rizzler I thought we were bros

is oke, this too shall pass.

…No. There was just a group of sauced developers eating each others own circle jerked marketing and each others products in Silicon Valley and if you weren’t into that, you were out. Software dev had this coming for the longest time. So glad AI is here.

Happy for you! I don’t know what you are talking about though it was awesome and fun learning, building skills, and solving problems. It was awesome

Bear with me.

Let's go back futher - imagine being a software developer before the internet. Everything was a discovery. Books were full of lore. And APIs didn't move so fast that books were obsolete within days.

We really used to read books about programming 😭

I remember the days of wanting to find a good tutorial of some deep technical issue and finding 30 todo apps instead.

This is how I imagine coding in assembly language with only books pre-internet felt

With AI.

How it feels with Ai

how it feels now

I stopped feeling that way long before AI. Maybe around the time """Agile™""" showed up.

best show ever...best feeling ever...

Is this actually not irony? Seems divorced from reality.

lol no way it’s posted on Twitter so it is super serious and truthful

Can't get a coherent signal out of you.

It’s more the complete inverse. Being a software developer before AI was not peaceful or serene, now as a software developer I can send out an orchestration of agents from my mobile phone and get code done. NOW being a software developer is like this BECAUSE of AI.

If the woods are the world of software development, who the heck is this guy?

I'll one up this. How it felt to be a software developer before computers:

Guy on a buffalo is classic

Kids these days will never understand

Outside of the bay area yes It still can too. Even in the age of LLMs.

So true. Except when it got dark and there was nothing to help but your wits and endurance.

it still the same, go ask ai to give me drivers for my Geforce 210 so i can run my old graphics compatible with the linux new kernel

Classic

This is what developers will be after AI.

this is how life feels now that claude just codes what i tell it to and i have hours of free time in my home office.

AND then there's today software developer using Ai

wish it was like that for me..

is it worse now? yes. does this tweet show how short of a memory we all have? also yes

@bradneuberg 😆

Now

we were developing very different software then

so like two weeks ago?

It was damn real