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Comment on Ask HN: Anyone still coding like 2021? Where do you work?

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These days I feel I am the only one that hasn’t changed their way of writing software at all.

If you mean using a text editor, a shell, and a makefile, then you're not alone by any stretch of the imagination.

If you mean your skills stagnated 10+ years ago and have not advanced since then, then... yeah, you might be the only one ;).

If you mean your skills stagnated 10+ years ago and have not advanced since then, then... yeah, you might be the only one ;).

Unfortunately, definitely not. There are lots of people still doing the same as they did a decade ago who have learned very little. Very often the people who knew very little to start with.

It's 2026. It hasn't been 10+ years

It hasn't been 10+ years

:-?

My "10+ years" was not referring to any specific milestone. It was referring to the general flow of time. It's been 10 years since 2016, twenty since 2006, and more than 40 since writing my first program. Lots has changed every 10 years in that period, both in my skills and the environments i program in, but shell/emacs/makefile remains a staple of that process.

Ah, well the question you were answering spoke of 2021. It's not about not changing your practices in a decade but about LLMs. Apparently you dodged both questions by neither referring to 2021 nor to the thing that became somewhat usable in 2021 xD

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