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by TacticalCoder 776 days ago
> ... whose collaborative and open approach to information sharing was ultimately used to render their own profession defunct.

Before that happens, so many other professions shall then have been rendered totally obsolete. So many it'd have profound societal consequences. I understand the "me, myself and I" and the fear but programmers coding themselves into irrelevance is really the least of our concerns.