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by vermilingua 1128 days ago
The field C is most impactfully commoditising is low-level coding. Instead of someone giving opcodes to a CPU, they’re increasingly able to give them to a compiler. It’s an open question how far this can scale. But we may be near the zenith of the practicality of large-scale coding expertise.

Pedantic, maybe, but “coding expertise” isn’t going anywhere.