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No Silver Bullet by Fred Brooks

Future of Coding

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Compatibility Is Not Compliance, Right?

Software engineer is standing on the shoulders of giants. You have to do what you can to balance on top of this trembling giant and not fall off. Much of the complexity that a software engineer must master is arbitrary complexity forced without rhyme or reason by the many human institutions and systems to which their interfaces must conform. Anybody who's played shadow of the Colossus. There's your mental image for what it's like to be a programmer in the 21st century.

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