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Author's early coding journey parallels current AI displacement fears

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The author recounts their early experiences with programming, starting with AppleScript on Mac OS 7 at age seven and progressing to developing their own compiled programs by age eight. They detail their personal history, including being institutionalized in Romania and later adopted into the United States, growing up near the University of Maine where their mother worked in technology. The narrative draws a parallel between their mother's struggle against demotion after developing software and the current threat faced by engineers as AI models become more capable, questioning the future role of human developers. AI

IMPACT Raises questions about the future role of human developers in an era of increasingly capable AI.

RANK_REASON The item is a personal narrative reflecting on past experiences with technology and drawing parallels to current AI trends, fitting the definition of commentary.

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Author's early coding journey parallels current AI displacement fears

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Andrei Merlescu ·

    My Professional Story: Two Names, Thirty Years of Scaffolded Code, and the AI That Can't Tell I'm One Person

    <p>While the University of Maine was extending BITNET to families of long-time employees, I was writing AppleScript programs for Mac OS 7 at just 7 years old. By the time I was 8, I had compiled <em>applications</em> that ran when you double clicked on them, and <em>magic happene…

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