Yacine: 'Programmer' Will Sound as Strange to My Son as Human Computer Does to Me
yacineMTB · x · 2026-09-21
Yacine MTB quotes a take that anti-AI sentiment often stems from people over-identifying with their jobs (e.g., the extinct 'draftsman'), and adds a historical analogy: 'computer' used to be a human occupation — fields of women crunching numbers — until machine computers took over.
His prediction: 'programmer' as an occupation will be as strange to his son as human computers are to us.
Related event: Yacine jokes that programmers may become a forgotten profession(2 posts)→
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