I'd be quite surprised if we could "just" decide to do that given the economic incentives

That’s thinking short term. In the long run there are no economic incentives for humans.

Show me a company or politician who acts with true long term goals in mind and I'll reconsider my position ;)

> the field as we knew it is dead

As someone whose world used to revolve around this stuff, I agree completely. For all intents and purposes, what I thought was my career is gone. Sure, it's always been about solving problems but not like this. The problem is that the future hasn't been evenly distributed. This is going to be one long drawn out funeral

Porpoise *

I usually kind of roll my eyes when people complain about visual effects on a website but I wholeheartedly agree. It makes it very difficult to read

People have been floating this theory every time a slowdown is called for ever since GPT-2. Every time it turns out that we had not hit the ceiling. I'm sure one day we will but it's just not a reasonable position, in my opinion.

"Knowing the struggle" is/was a massive part of my enjoyment of programming. I used to love browsing Github just to see what people were building and really appreciating clever ideas or the amount of work required to make something, especially when it's something of limited commercial value. Now I feel like I've lost that. So it's not just that I don't get appreciation for my work but I find it's harder to appreciate other people's work.

The title does not imply it's comprehensive. If anything, a title like that suggests that it's only scratching the surface. If I read an article like "Haskell for C# Developers" I would not expect to be an expert in Haskell at the end. I would expect to have enough intuition to begin actually learning the language properly

For what it's worth, I love the semantics of many indentation based languages (F# for example) but really dislike editing them. Visually scanning is much easier with braces (imo) and it's much easier to navigate braced languages when using a vim-like editor

For somebody unable to empathize with the "braces are easier to scan" part, could yiu explain why?

I find it easy to see if things are on the same indentation. I find it much harder to visually scan for opening and closing braces unless syntax highliting makes them scream at me or they are accompanied by ...indentation.

I suspect this is a "what you are used to" and have trained yourself to look out for over many years of code reading.