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I Started Programming When I Was 7. I'm 50 Now, and the Thing I Loved Has Changed | James Randall

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I still love developing but the shifts that AI have brought are tectonic and are forcing me to re-evaluate my own relationship to building things

I Started Programming When I Was 7. I'm 50 Now, and the Thing I Loved Has Changed | James Randall James Randall Musings on software development, business and technology. I Started Programming When I Was 7. I'm 50 Now, and the Thing I Loved Has Changed I wrote my first line of code in 1983. I was seven years old, typing BASIC into a machine that had less processing power than the chip in your washing machine. I understood that machine completely. Every byte of RAM had a purpose I could trace. Every pixel on screen was there because I'd put it there. The path from intention to result was direct,

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