I definitely comprehend coding language better/faster when I want to fully understand a program. I usually skip docs and go to the sources when possible. I think it's deeper than just the code though, the biggest thing I haven't seen in using natural language is good organization to express the program.

100% agree. It's crazy so many Ai articles are heralding the end of code while at the same time defining more complex ways to write code under a different name.

I suppose I could look it up but I wonder if people thought this of "high level" languages like C when it first came out. No more assembly. Or even assembly instead of machine code.

Kind of ironic for these companies to make their moat software while at the same time saying that SaaS and software development in general is obsolete

"programming is solved" has also been said, I don't know how someone can say that with a straight face, let alone going on a podcast tour with it as the mantra

I have a hard time imagining anything where writing a browser wouldn't be an excellent transferable foundation. Even your example: writing css will never teach you as much as writing a css engine.

Sorry if I was unclear. I mean they'll never have enough time to learn a significant amount of modern web tech because they'll be working up to it from lower layers and basics.

Browsers from scratch are multi-year projects for multiple people. Even just skinning and minor tweaks to modern browsers is a deep well for one person.

I feel like your example exactly describes why the development pipeline is production. Just because the critical hours of the system are different doesn't mean it's any less important.

I have never worked in a company where it is okay for production to be down at any time. Critical hours or not.

And if production is down even if there is just one user, it is all hands on deck.

I was trying to debug/fix a segfault in the JVM which kept getting flagged