While I built many electronic components as a child, I have been programming sin

While I built many electronic components as a child, I have been programming since the mid 70s in assembler on a time shared IBM 360 using a teletype and paper output, and punched tape for storage.
I have lived through each of the subsequent revolutions in computer science, and profited from each one. But to be honest other than the invention of OOP for the purpose of simulations, and the continued decline of the cost of computation, I still pretty much think in assembly, but I prefer the ‘texty’ lisp, script-whatever, clojure sequence, because I prefer to write self-modifying code whenever possible. My only frustration is that the browser tech has decreased distribution costs, the browser architecture, language, and toolset without compilers is sh-t and so it’s easy to make money (my business) because devs are so comparatively unproductive, and as such the browser tech (js) is a blocking function on progress.
I’m happy with the LLMs but they literally solve zero problems without wayfinding to a desired end rather than probability following toward an arbitrary end. But I’m hopeful at this rate of development, combined with the rate of development of neuromorphic hardware, that we might eventually get the tech leap we want and need.
If I was ten years younger I’d jump into the biz again, but my work on law is more important for man. 😉

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