[bluetwo]

I can't help but think in 3-5 years how quaint our tools of the day will seem.

[achompas]

I think about this constantly.

Not to sound like I walked uphill in both directions back in my day or something, but I remember building models in numpy without pandas. It was tedious -- and that's just a nice API wrapping ndarrays!

[bhrgunatha]

> Not to sound like I walked uphill in both directions back in my day

Local minima?

[YeGoblynQueenne]

Most likely, gradient descent with momentum.

[farazbabar]

Oh boy, that and perturbation.

[jimbokun]

I’m not so sure.

You can make an argument current tools haven’t really surpassed a Lisp Machine for developer productivity, or a SmallTalk environment.

[noobermin]

Not really. I see things like leftpad and npm fails and CEOs mailing private keys they've stored from customers. I see the same lessons we have have to re-learn year after year.