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I feel a certain way when I hear about older programmers who used to program using punch cards, I guess everyone in the future will think about us in the same way?

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I feel a certain way when I work with older programmers who used to program using punch cards, and debug actual core dumps, i.e. the main memory of the computer printed out in hex. They have incredible attention to detail, and can reason about why their programs didn't do what they expected.

In some ways slower feedback loops might be useful. Having to think and reason if your code is correct and actually works because you only get output next day...

Instead of just vibing something out, pushing it to prod and seeing the problems. Or not even checking...

You don't "program" with punch cards any more than you "program" with text files. They were just the mechanism to get your code into the computer before hard drives and compilers existed.

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