Essays

My Twenty Years of Programming : From “Hello World” to “World Hello”

20 years: from a kid’s “Hello World” on a screaming 486 to getting owned by ChatGPT for “not Pythonic enough.” Bugs, bad frameworks, angry PMs, 3 a.m. takeout with teammates, and in 2022, AI finished my code in 30 seconds and roasted me. This isn’t a tutorial.It’s a love letter to growing up as a coder,and learning to dance with machines.Keep going. The world still needs your “World Hello.”