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Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

mhoye wrote:

90's computing: documentation is a waste of time, learn to read code.

2000's computing: we value working software over comprehensive documentation.

2010's computing: SAAS API RPC CLOUD warrgarble

2020's computing: You have more CPU in your lap and maybe your pocket than existed in the world in 1990, an impossibly powerful math furnace at your immediate disposal, at a whim. Learning the details of how to put it to your purposes is a sheer cliff face for some mysterious, indiscernible reason.