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Xirdustoday at 6:25 PM2 repliesview on HN

The sorcerers have always outnumbered the wizards. Before AI, we called them code monkeys.


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gbjcantabtoday at 7:05 PM

That’s fair! I think what struck me, though, is that what we’re seeing is large numbers of “wizards” jump ship to and actively promote “sorcery” instead, in this sense. That is, it’s interesting to me to see Dan Abramov, whose blog primarily consists of painstaking explanations of React internals based on the deep knowledge he developed over years as the most visible member of the core team, switch over to “do a breakthrough.”

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thesuitonymtoday at 7:04 PM

And before those code monkeys were making money, we called them skiddies.