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As a young software developer in the analytical instruments development industry this rant sounds like a "Grandpa" rant.
We're constantly moving towards easier formats to develop in but there will always be young specialists in older fields which were taught by the older generation.
Do you not know how to program in binary? Young people these days don't know anything about binary anymore, ridiculous. -
@lloyd190 yes I do, and young people are so abstracted from the hardware it’s absurd, and disastrous actually, because again in 30 years, who’s gonna make everything work? Not everything is on a fucken server or desktop.. hell even then someone’s gotta write low level code. Literally all this higher level bullshit does not function without something running on the metal... that’s just how it works... but in 30 years no one new will even know anything about the baremetal... we will be in a crisis
I started writing code at a young age, nodding games, building websites, modifying hex files, hacking etc... I started my career off tho in highschool writing embedded code for a local medical robotics company, and also got tasked with building the mobile app to control these robots and use them for diagnostics, etc.... this was before the App bubble, before there was app degree and that bullshit.. anyway graduated highschool, went to college to get a comp sci degree.
Wanted to teach for the university and research AI...
well I dropped out of college after 3 years, cuz I spent more time at work than in class. (I was a software consultant) in the auto industry in Detroit. I wasn’t learning anything I didn’t already know or could learn from books or a quick google search.
I also didn’t like the approach professors and the department taught software... way none of the kids had a good foundation of what the fuck they were doing... and everyone relied on the god damn IDEs... so I said fuck it and dropped out after getting in plenty of arguments with the professors and department leads.
I probably should have choose CE .. but whatever CS imo still needs a solid CE/EE foundation without it, 30 years from now I fear what will become of the industry of electronics... when all current gen folks are retired and nobody to write the embedded code, that literally ALLLLL consumer electronics runs on. Newer generations don’t understand pointers, proper memory management etc.
So I combined both passion AI and knowledge of software in general and embedded software, and been working on my career in the auto industry without a degree, never looked back.
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