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We're eventually going to have to give up on the notion that we must understand the inner workings of the things we build. That's arguably starting to happen now. Not 100% sure it's a bad thing, but it's certainly scary.

We've long since reached the point at which no one can be said to be a true polymath ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Man_Who_Knew_Everythi... ). Having lost the ability as individuals to know something about everything, we're now losing the ability to know everything about anything.

I'm pretty sure that while the most popular programming languages today are Python and Javascript, the most popular ones 10 years from now will be English and Mandarin. Everything we know about software development is about to change. It's about time.



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