Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear

In article <P1xUO.442114$FzW1.388041@fx14.iad>,
 scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) wrote:

Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:

On 10/30/2024 4:39 AM, D wrote:

 

 
This raises questions about the future job of programmers. Do you
believe that the field will be split into simple code-monkeys where
salaries with the help of AI, will decrease more and more over time, and
the "elite" who actually are the ones who develop new algorithms, tools
and AI that serve to reduce the salaries of the code-monkeys?

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I have no idea and I am in the business of writing and selling software.
 Programming is an odd profession, very few programmers actually have a
programming degree.  My degree is in Mechanical Engineering, one of my
programmers has a PhD in Chemical Engineering, and my other programmer
has a double degree in Chemistry and Physics.

 
Pretty much every programmer I've worked with over the last forty five years
has had a degree in computer science or computer engineering.  There
have been some without degrees that learned on the job (e.g. started
in product support and moved to programming, but those are the exception,
not the rule).
 
 

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Many of the elite programmers never graduated from college.  Bill Gates,
Mark Zuckerberg, etc.

 
Calling either of them 'elite' programmers is inaccurate.  Good businessmen,
perhaps.  Perhaps even good idea men.
 

While Linus Torvalds does have a computer science degree, it appears
that he wrote the kernal for Linux before he graduated.

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