Here’s what I notice about my grief: none of it is about missing the act of writing code. It’s about the world around the code changing. The ecosystem, the economy, the culture. I think that’s a different kind of loss than what Randall and Lawson are describing. Theirs is about the craft itself. Mine is about the context and the reasons why we’re doing any of this.

• One automated tasks within an existing paradigm, and the other created a new paradigm in which those tasks simply didn’t need to exist at all. And it is paradigm replacement, not task automation, that actually displaces workers
• any technology is unleashed only when you figure out how to organize work around it, rather than slotting it into what already exists.

• https://tessl.io/registry/skills/github/tobi/qmd/qmd

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46616529