Explaining 2026 to my 2022 self: developers no longer read or write code
JnBrymn · x · 2026-10-28
A resonant post: in 2022 we imagined explaining cars, planes and color TVs to our grandmothers; now we'd need to explain to our 2022 selves that you can talk to computers like people, software developers no longer read or write code, and you can speak a near-photoreal video of anything into existence. Four years brought changes even the recent past self couldn't have imagined.
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