Jeremy Scheff poignantly captures the key loss caused by coding agents for career programmers who enjoyed the puzzle of developing code: Programming turned into one of the greatest jobs you …

“They would give us a problem and we would solve it the way we wanted.”

My obituary for programming

I’d never seen it like that before but that’s what it was. It’s also the joy of many computer games.

However, the internet brought stacks, frameworks, complexity, and many things that reduced the puzzle and made it more like work!

Ten years ago I wrote this…

OK. I don’t think that I was particularly original but I was right! Today Azure is 30% of the company and still growing at 40% a year.