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   Thiago Figueiró (thiagocsf@techhub.social)'s status on Monday, 26-Feb-2024 00:35:21 JST Thiago Figueiró

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   • Meredith Whittaker

   @Mer__edith "Don't learn to code. Let us do that for you in exchange for an ever-increasing small subscription fee."

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     Meredith Whittaker (mer__edith@mastodon.world)'s status on Monday, 26-Feb-2024 00:35:23 JST Meredith Whittaker

     I'm sure a future where "workers push the buttons we give them, and only we know how they work" is good for incumbents and "button making companies."

     But it's not something we should celebrate as progress!

     Also v rich given Nvidia's success is in part attributable to having tons of low-level programmers mid-2000s--ppl who understand the mechanisms abstracted away for most--and were thus able to focus on creating the CUDA ecosystem way ahead of competitors. ANYWAY...

     https://vulcanpost.com/853029/dont-learn-to-code-jensen-huang-on-career/

     Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) repeated this.