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Simon Willison
@simonwillison.net

I think this is more about how the minutiae of syntax is less important than it used to be - I'm seeing that in my own work, I'm writing Go code now despite not being able to tell you what a Go for loop looks like off the top of my head - but I have 25y of programming experience to help me guide it

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Michal Migurski
@mike.teczno.com

It’s the same for me (writing Typescript even though I don’t know the language, etc.) but Beck’s take strikes me as really facile. We went through this with high-level languages and compilers, right? Nobody knows how to write assembler anymore but there’s still such a thing as a junior coder.

Michal Migurski
@mike.teczno.com

I listened and I think he’s describing how he’s able to program in a bunch of languages at once, right? I think he has a day job at Gusto where he’s some kind of principal engineer given his background? He doesn’t seem to mention a team, coworkers, or mentees though.