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maps with recent headlines about AI improving programmer productivity 20-30%.

which puts it in line with previous code-generation technologies i would imagine. I wonder which of these increased productivity the most?

- Assembly Language

- early Compilers

- databases

- graphics frameworks

- ui frameworks (windows)

- web apps

- code generators (rails scaffolding)

- genAI

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Early Compilers. By a wide margin. They are the enabling factor for everything that comes below it. It's what allows you to share library interfaces and actually use them in a consistent manor and across multiple architectures. It entirely changed the shape of software development.

The gap between "high level assembly" and "compiled language" is about as large as it gets.

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