The End of the Hackers Era
April 19, 2021

Archived from an original LinkedIn post by Brian Greenforest.

Original Post

I am overwhelmed by complexity. Please, stop showing how clever you are, and making the world a more complex place. Kids, UX designers, PMs should be able to put a decent multi-server multi-client distributed program running over FPGAs, CPUs, GPUs in a matter of hours without ANY programmer's ingenuity. Put your cleverness aside. Along with Moore's Law, the Hackers' Era is coming to the end. And the reason is not AIs. The reason is a demand. A technological revolution. A totally different way to compile, interpret, distribute, and run your code. A totally different path does exist. It's like "distributed npm" but with reactive nature of your code. It's like Harel statecharts for all things control. A brave new world is coming, and it's going to shatter everything we expect from programming, computing, code...

The world we are going to create will provide a malleable foundation for yet-to-become AGI. Then we will find a way to build nano replicators for compute, and explosion of Singularity will happen. But before that, we have a very important work to do.

Only one person. I am looking only for one programmer who won't flake until this brave new world happens because of our hard work.