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Jonathan Blow - Preventing the Collapse of Civilization (English only)

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Jonathan Blow - Preventing the Collapse of Civilization (English only)

Jonathan Blow's DevGAMM 2019 talk argues that software knowledge is being lost between generations and that growing layers of abstraction could lead to a decline in technological civilization.

A perennial HN reference for arguments that software is getting worse and that hard-won knowledge is disappearing.

20 Hacker News mentions · 2019–2023

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