Easy — we’ll explain it fast. The IT expert’s story in 6 acts.
From typing code by hand to governing machines that build on their own.
“Computing was a thing for geniuses and eccentrics.”
The government paid you to discover stuff. Simple.
Ada Lovelace designs the first algorithm. Yes, a woman invented programming in the 19th century. Boom.
“Computers the size of a flat. And they heated up like one too.”
You leased a mainframe for a fortune and had to maintain it yourself on top of that.
The first "bug" was literal: a moth trapped in a relay. Grace Hopper taped it to the incident log. Debugging OG.
“Programming stops being art and becomes a factory.”
They quote a price, blow past the deadline, and the software does half of what was promised. Classic.
Enter C, SQL, and the IBM PC puts a computer in every office.
Mass outsourcing starts here. For better and for worse.
“Suddenly the whole world is connected. And everyone wants a website.”
If your site went down at 3 AM, someone had to get up. That someone got paid for it.
The "Webmaster" was frontend, backend, sysadmin and designer. All in one. A misunderstood hero.
“Hardware vanishes. Data is the new gold. And everything's a subscription.”
You don't buy software anymore — you subscribe. Netflix but for everything.
AWS, Docker, Kubernetes... If you didn't know these words, you were nobody in an interview.
Continuous deployment (CI/CD) makes software update itself. Almost.
“AI helps you out, but you're still the one typing.”
Still billing by the hour, but now with AI whispering in the developer's ear.
It was like having a brilliant intern who made things up. Someone had to watch them.
For the first time, machines build the software. Humans stop typing and focus on what gets built and why.
The expert's value is no longer how fast they type, but how well they govern what the machines build.
"We govern machines that build worlds we used to only be able to code."