Programmers are not ordinary people. Whenever they sit down to write code, they are actually doing work that is critical to the continued development of human civilization. Due to the existence of programmers, people’s lives have fundamentally changed in every aspect, and they are full of hope for a better future.
technology
All roads, vehicles, factories and power lines, including the entire world’s supply chain, are actually powered by software. If programmers disappear overnight, we’re all going to be rocked.
Of course, you need non-programmers to do manual work, but if we had robots, that kind of work would stop. By then, workers all over the world will ditch their rusted tools and join us in intellectual activities like listening to Bach.
biology
Ordinary people have chaotic thinking and instincts, but programmers’ thinking is orderly, like well-written code.
This is because only they can understand our code, we just run it with our physical hardware.
Armed with this knowledge, programmers can control their endocrine system, and all emotions are instantly suppressed or transformed into actions or behaviors that support their abstract work.
This is very unfortunate in the eyes of non-programmers. But abstraction gives a rich inner world whose pleasure is far greater than the real world. Why smell roses when you can think of a for-loop?
politics
On this earth, we are animals most of the time, so we create languages, and then programming languages. Finally, we set out to tame the beast of humanity.
With this code, we can model any situation so we can understand why wars and famines happen and how to prevent them.
Programmers do think about the future. There is a common misconception that programmers spend their days sitting around computers. But that’s only part of the truth; they also work on computers all night.
philosophy
Ludwig Wittgenstein famously said, “The limits of my language are the limits of my world”, and this is especially true for programmers.
Why should you live in a messy, unpredictable world when you can create any reality you want with a few lines of JavaScript?
Only programmers can realize the ideal pioneered by people like Dalí and Joyce: the collapse of reality and the birth of an ordered, perfect metaverse.
In fact, many programmers feel that only themselves are the real living people, and we are just philosophical zombies who don’t know what happened. Annotation: German philosopher) has dealt with this problem.
Art
Speaking of Dalí, all the artists in the world are just programmers who haven’t written any code yet.
AI-powered art tools like DALL·E will soon make it clear to the remaining artists that there is no need to waste their creativity on anything other than programming.
religion
Every major religion was started by programmers who were born before the computer age.
The reason is simple: only programmers can penetrate the illusion of matter and see the world for what it really is: information. As proof, the real pixels are the Planck length , and the code of a quantum computer embedded in time and space .
Most modern programmers are agnostic because they know that by then, perhaps with the aid of artificial intelligence, they will write a Prolog program that outputs a Gödel ontological proof of the existence of God, or NULL.
programming
Of course, there’s also the programming itself.
You give a fish to a man, he will eat the fish, and he will die. If you teach a person to fish and he learns how to program, he can build a fishing robot that can live.
Not just fishing, anything that can be automated will eventually come true. It won’t be long before humans have nothing else to do, and that will put a smile on the faces of the AI overlords who will eventually replace us.
So, next time you see a programmer, be sure to say thank you for their perseverance. Our gratitude to them cannot be overstated.
about the author:
Sebastian Carlos, programmer, blogger.
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