LB: And this is why AI isn't going to replace my age group in tech.
But we are getting fucking old. Fortunately, motivated people work out-of-the-box, but there is something to be said for learning the hard stuff formally.
I feel like I can use almost any toolbox because of e.g. the scars I got in PL class, even though we were almost all in the "I will neeever use this" boat at the time.
People who go for training in a specific trend technology only are going to have a harder time.
@grrrr_shark I guess one of the huge advantages we had is having seen computer at a stage where they were simple enough to understand how everything worked. Then we saw incremental improvements, and more incremental improvements. And more and more. And every step was small enough that you could wrap your head around it.
Starting from scratch now, with the amount of complexity we've layered, is going to be a nightmare.
You still have such computers today: e.g. microcontrollers. Ones with external memory buses are rarer than they used to be though, so the next steps are larger.
