Jonathan Blow on Software Knowledge and Civilization's Future
bus · Talk · YouTube title: Jonathan Blow - Preventing the Collapse of Civilization (English only)
Why it's here
A perennial HN reference for arguments that software is getting worse and that hard-won knowledge is disappearing.
What it covers
Jonathan Blow's DevGAMM 2019 talk argues that software knowledge is being lost between generations and that growing layers of abstraction could lead to a decline in technological civilization.