Sounds so 2025 but this could be a headline from Byte Magazine in 1975, when C - introduced in 1972 - was gaining popularity.

Imagine Assembly programmers worried their job would become obsolete.

Instead of manually writing Assembly code it became possible to write code in a new language called C. The compiler would then generate the code for you. Imagine that.

This is of course a hypothetical example. Compilers are deterministic and LLM models are sthocastic components. This is just a thought exercise to take us back to the mid-70s and try to understand how they might have felt. I bet some programmers were worried like some of us are today.

50 years later we rarely write Assembly today, but developers didn't disappear. Assembly programmers became superheroes because they were able to understand all the layers of the new systems being created with this new amazing tool. The focus changed to be able to build more complex systems. More people could become developers thanks to C and that was great.

We will keep building more complex systems. In quantity and in complexity.

It doesn’t matter the language , it doesn’t matter the tool.

What matters and always will is problem-solving skills.

Code is not sacred.

Problem solving is what keeps you relevant.

Not your code.

Focus on that.

Note: Cover is AI generated.