[lowbloodsugar]

Ask HN 1800: How to avoid losing spinning wheel skills in new spinning jenny era?

Ask HN 1920: How to avoid losing farrier skills in new automobile era?

Ask HN 1980: How to avoid losing typewriting and shorthand skills in new microcomputer era?

Ask HN 1990: How to avoid losing assembly language skills in new C++ era?

Ask HN 1995: How to avoid losing DOS TUI app dev skills in new Windows era?

Ask HN 2000: How to avoid losing Visual Basic skills in new web application era?

(The answer, btw, is if you are still interested in such niche skills, then you just have to practice on your own, or find a niche product or marketplace).

[raw_anon_1111]

Funny enough, I lived through all of those eras starting with assembly in 1986 in sixth grade),

1996 - C and Fortran on DEC VAX and Stratus VOS mainframes

2001 - C/C++ on PCs and mainframes and starting to work on VB

2006 - JavaScript/C#/some Perl

2011 - C# on Windows ruggedized devices

2016 - .NET Core

2021 - Working as an L5 at AWS (ProServe)

2026 - staff consultant at a 3rd party consulting company. Every single project I’ve done has had Bedrock (AWS service that host most of the popular models) and I constantly have three terminal sessions open - one to run code, one running Codex and the other running Claude.

[wmil]

The younger generation discovering TUIs has been amusing.

[direwolf20]

Ask HN 1647: How to avoid losing ship captaining skills in the tulip trading era?