vboykis laments that nobody writes code anymore amid AI hype about threats, proofs and IPOs
vboykis · x · 2026-09-11
Engineer vboykis tweeted that today's AI discourse is all about cyber threats, math proofs, IPOs, loops and graphs — "nobody writes code anymore... we lost the plot." Replying to herself, she reminisced about an older tech culture: Hadoop-vs-Spark debates, whimsical icons, .ly startup names, knowledge sharing, O'Reilly and Manning books, and when Joel Spolsky still blogged.
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