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A quick look at the history of the software engineer role.

💬 Topics:
- Developer role evolution;
- AI code generation shift;
- Abstraction increases demand;
- Hardware programming;
- Compiler abstraction breakthrough;
- Web era expansion

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A historical walkthrough of how the software developer role has evolved from Ada Lovelace and ENIAC through compilers, the web, and mobile — to today's AI-generated code era. Each decade introduced a new abstraction layer that was predicted to make programmers obsolete, yet the number of developers grew from ~100 in 1950 to over 40 million today. The core argument: easier code creation has always led to more demand for software, not less, and the current AI shift will likely follow the same pattern by moving developers to a higher level of abstraction rather than eliminating them.

Everyone keeps predicting the end of programmers...

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