Historically, a computer was not a machine at all, but a person.
From the 17th century until the mid-20th century, the word described someone whose job was to perform repetitive mathematical calculations by hand.
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History repeating itself
Arvid Kahl (@arvidkahl)
This is software engineering's "calculator" moment. The word used to refer to people, now means technology.
"Developer" will make the same shift, from person-who-assembles-code to an agentic process that turns well-scoped prompts into deliverable software projects.
No way back.
— https://nitter.net/arvidkahl/status/2085340785357033569#m