Comment by bbarnett

I remember reading a sci-fi book, where time was.. sharded? And people from different times were thrust together. I think it was a Phoenician army, which had learned to ride and battle bareback.

And were introduced to the stability of stirrups and saddle.

They were like daemons on those stirrup equipped horses. They had all the agility of wielding weapons and engaging in battle by hanging onto mane, and body with legs, yet now had (to them) a crazy easy and stable platform.

When the battle came, the Phoenicians just tore through those armies who had grown up with the stirrup. There was no comparison in skill or capability.

(Note: I'm positive some of the above may be wrong, but can't find the story and so am just stating it as best able)

My point is, are we in that age? Are we the last skilled, deeply knowledgeable coders?

I grew up learning to write eeproms on burners via the C64. Writing machine language because my machines were too slow otherwise. Needing to find information from massive paper manuals. I had to work it all out myself often, because no internet no code examples, just me thinking of how things could be done. Another person who grew up with some of the same tools and computers, once said we are the last generation to understand the true, full stack.

Now I wonder, is it the same with coding?

Are we it?

The end?