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by TechBro8615 1345 days ago
It doesn't end, that's why the number of developers is increasing indefinitely. The crazy thing is that it seems to work, as society has still yet to fall apart.

...or maybe society is falling apart and it's the fault of programmers. Maybe we're building an unstable web of automated abstractions supported by a decreasing number of specialists operating at the physical layers closer to reality. Maybe one day it will all collapse like the collaterized debt obligation market in 2007 and we'll be back to making websites with PHP and FTP.

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> we'll be back to making websites with PHP and FTP

It stopped?

I def missed that memo.