https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=roncarHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 20 Jun 2026 15:43:21 +0000When I made a mid career change to Cobol programming in 1981 my first manager (a suit as programmers referred to them then) pointed to a book on his desk; the title,as I can best recall was Programming Without Programmers. He "You got in too late," he said. I retired from programming in 2010. The hype has a long history. I hope I'm around long enough to see how this plays out.

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