[AndrewKemendo]

And prior to the desktop computer, you had to actually go work at a laboratory in order to do any programming whatsoever, which required significant amounts of educational and social access

What’s the point?

Writing deploying and delivering software has never been as accessible as it has ever been

Much like the author I learned on my own too and with a lot less help because I didn’t have a parent even guiding me through it

[mghackerlady]

that is literally what this article is about, how returning to that is a bad thing

[AndrewKemendo]

But that is not under threat and I’m not sure why people think it is

None of the arguments demonstrate even accidentally that there is LESS knowledge or fewer options.

This is the least locked in period and the better AI gets it will be an option to be even less locked in because you can just build and run everything yourself on your own hardware

Literally anyone can run the equivalent of an entire datacenter from 2000 on a handful of retired servers and old laptops at this point.