Hi, this is a question that popped into my mind when i saw an article about some AWS engineer talking about ai assistants taking over the job of programmers, this reminded me that it's not the first time that something like this was said.
My software engineering teacher once told me that a few years ago people believed graphical tools like enterprise architect would make it so that a single engineer could just draw a pretty UML diagram and generate 90% of the project without touching any code,
And further back COBOL was supposed to replace programmers by letting accountants write their own programs.
Now i'm curious, were there many other technologies that were supposedly going to replace programmers that you remember?
i hope someone that's been around much more than me knows something more or has some funny stories to share
a few days ago i saw a post on the reddit datahoarder community asking how to backup keys and other small files for a long time.
it reminded me of a script i made some time ago to save my otp secrets in case of loss of device or a reenactment of the raivo otp incident,
so i decided to make it public on github, hope someone here finds it useful
the density is not great, about 1kB per A4 page, but it can recover from losing up to half of the printed surface and, if stored properly, paper should last very long
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