From wiring circuits to writing prompts: the 70-year 'degradation' of programmers as a meme
JonathanRoss321 · x · 2026-10-13
Groq founder Jonathan Ross posted a 'Singularity' meme: in 1950 real programmers wired their own circuits, 1985 assembly, 2010 C, 2026 Python — and by 2027, real programmers write their own prompts.
The timeline jokes about the ever-rising abstraction ladder in programming: each generation dismisses the next's tools as 'not real programming', and in the AI era even writing code becomes the step that gets skipped.
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