I have a somewhat complicated take on "technical" vs. "non-technical", the brief version of which is that it isn't great for anyone. More:https://twitter.com/rrhoover/status/915771034606776320 …
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You can script up for loops, FSMS, and machine learning models and stay technical but as soon as you tell people or money what to do... BAM.
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Many very talented folks I know who are in classically non-technical jobs do work which doesn't just look like programming, it literally is.
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It seems a very quixotic view of the world that some people who can write inner joins are non-technical and some who can't are technical.
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c.f. Excel, which while not being my choice for writing distributed systems is, practically speaking, one of most widely used for them.
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("Excel's clearly not a distributed system." It clearly is; C on a best-effort basis, A everywhere always, intentionally sacrifices the P.)
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