Levine: Next generation of coders will be mathematicians, not logic writers
Peter Levine · The End of Cloud Computing · Jul 15, 2017 · at 20:20
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Peter Levine, partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), outlines his prediction on the future of software engineering during a presentation on the shift from cloud to edge computing.
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“The other thing is that we are going to move to a world of Data-centric programming. It's kind of interesting in the same way that, you know, I believe that cloud disaggregates into this new model. We're teaching everyone to code now, and we're teaching everyone to code logic. That is if, then, else, and that's what everyone's learning how to code. Well, when you deal with data, we don't use if, then, and else. We're going to be using data to actually solve problems, and the next generation of coders will be more mathematicians and data analysts as opposed to if-then-elsers.”
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