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To: SeekAndFind

It’s just about time. 50 years ago coding was something for post graduate study. Today, grade school kids might go to coding camp.

I remember 30+ years ago telling a secretary/admin type that her job was disappearing soon owing to common office automation. The good ones learned network administration, spreadsheets, databases or whatever. Typing and shorthand have their ever-shrinking place. It was about the same time that the first teasers of codeless programming were emerging.


29 posted on 06/29/2024 4:02:52 AM PDT by jimfree (My 21 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than Joe Biden.)
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I remember 30+ years ago...[]... It was about the same time that the first teasers of codeless programming were emerging.

Ahh! Good times.

COBOL was supposed to be "codeless programming" in English, no less. "Low Code Solutions" is the snake oil being sold today, along with "AI". Some things never change except for the terminology.

It still requires very smart people to develop computer software, and there are never a lot of them available. Those people require much more intelligence than the managers and executives who control them. There is a built-in organizational problem there.

One thing I recall, at a time when women were generally placed in clerical work for typical organizations, was that about 30% of the Software Engineering staff were women. These were not "diversity hires", they were simply good engineers, and absolutely needed in their jobs. I also remember that the women in clerical positions visibly disliked the women in engineering positions, and vice-versa.

That has not changed either.

41 posted on 06/29/2024 8:14:11 AM PDT by flamberge (It seemed like a good idea at the time)
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