One year ago today I published a post about 20 years at Automattic, so it follows that I’ll post this one today, with 17 minutes left in the day.
AI is still disrupting our industry, and tech companies that are rolling in money are laying off thousands of developers. I don’t know what’s coming next, except that it will come one day at a time.
15 minutes left in the day.
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@donncha Ha! Fun post! Congrats on being there for 21 years – that’s amazing! (And now I have a reason to go and read last year’s post again…)
We are outsourcing understanding to software that doesn’t understand by design. I’m surprised it still works
@donncha that is an awesome URL!
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