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An "oh fuck" moment in time
Over the Christmas break I’ve been critically looking at my own software development loop, learning a new programming language and re-learning a language I haven’t professionally used in over seven years. It's now 2025. Software assistants are now a core staple of my day-to-day life as a staff
Last weekend I decided to take Cursor/Windsurfer for a spin after seeing a comment on HackerNews which can be distilled down to "the better the type system of the programming language and verbosity of compiler errors the harder LLM's go" When I got back, I had a fully functional Haskell library with autogenerated C bindings, FFI to CoreAudio and my jaw was on the ground. It's currently really hard for newbies to break into the software industry as it's still recovering from the en-mass layoffs two years ago.
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