The PS2's backwards compatibility from the engineer who built it (2020)
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·February 4, 2025mcflubbins
lukevp
I think we’re a couple years out max from Peak Developer and a lot of the growth / entry level roles will start getting taken over by the experienced devs who can adapt to coordinating a set of AI agents to do the actual coding and testing and DevOps more efficiently, and it’s all downhill from there. So I don’t see an entry level, mess around directly writing code job, to exist in abundance in say 10 years.
suhastech
I can see that happening. However, I also believe that college or some form of structured education will step in to bridge the gap. Historically, education has played a role in transitioning people from knowing little to becoming workforce ready. With AI changing the landscape, the gap will undoubtedly be wider, but education systems may evolve to accommodate that shift. By the looks of it, AI could itself fill that gap.
bilegeek
That's the exact problem though. Companies have been outsourcing training to colleges for decades now, further and further reducing available career paths as mentioned and causing degree inflation, higher education costs for everybody, etc.
It's also unlikely to change because it's just one more symptom of how companies are run these days, and that mindset has societal-scale momentum now.
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msephton
I wonder if Sony still runs such things...
msephton
Previously:
dang
Thanks! Macroexpanded:
The PS2’s Backwards Compatibility from the Engineer Who Built It - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34944067 - Feb 2023 (48 comments)
The PS2’s Backwards Compatibility from the Engineer Who Built It - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22501566 - March 2020 (16 comments)
Note to avoid misunderstanding: reposts of cool articles are totally fine after about a year (this is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html). Lists of related links are just to satisfy extra-curious readers.
mouse_
What I wouldn't give to attend that 90's PlayStation R&D internal intro programming course.
userbinator
Not the IBM PS/2, in case the title lead you in that direction.
> Luckily, I got the chance to learn how to program computers thanks to a training program that the company ran. The material was easy for me to grasp and I came away from that training feeling like I could program just about anything. After I was done with that training, I did a lot of odds and ends.
I worry such entry-level positions and on-the-job training will start to disappear (if they haven't already.)