The forty-year programmer
I keep writing the same kind of thing for different companies for more money every year.<p>Started 50 years ago on an Altair 8800 in my bedroom. Now I do it in a docker shell on a virtual machine over a VPN on hardware in another state on contract. But it's the same damn code I'm writing.<p>And I keep thinking "This could certainly be automated, and I know how."<p>But do I do it? And end a whole subset of programming? Not a lot of motivation for me to do that.