What 80 years of coding history says about AI tools today
summary
Argues today’s AI-assisted coding feels more evolutionary than revolutionary by tracing concrete shifts from Hollerith punch cards to UNIX, GPUs, TensorFlow and AlphaGo, noting platform changes and surprising metrics. Shows an actual site and slide deck built in Next.js on Vercel using Anthropic prompts, reports spending $44 to generate the whole site without hand‑writing code, and questions how much of development work and tooling really changes versus gets automated.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction and early history
- 1:54Electromechanical computers
- 3:24Programming in the 1950s
- 5:39Computing in the space race
- 7:27Emergence of modern languages
- 8:13Personal computing revolution
- 9:38The digital boom of the 90s
- 11:04Software era and web growth
- 12:17AI-driven coding future
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