Ordinary people into the software development: this is the most brutal career killing field of contemporary

The so-called “code farmer” is one of the most classic wealth myths in contemporary China.
Over the past two decades, we’ve seen countless young people from humble backgrounds make their way out with a computer and a line of code. 34-year-old Zhang Yiming used algorithms to reconstruct his social empire, Pinduoduo’s Huang Zheng broke through and rose to the top of the game in the post-traffic era, and 38-year-old Wang Xing used a line of code to rewrite the entire Chinese takeaway map – a track that has given birth to China’s youngest and richest people. This track has given birth to China’s youngest richest man, but also buried countless legends of grassroots rebellion.

But when the time comes in 2024, when AI starts producing code in bulk, and when the argument that “programmers are dead” is rampant, countless young people are still asking the same question: is it too late to learn software development?

decoding modern software engineering: these ten life and death pass you must win all

Real developers understand that software development is a game of death that needs to be won. From requirements analysis to version deployment, each step is a battlefield between technology and human nature.

Level 1: Programming Language Thurowdown

Java is turning over the metaverse, Python is encroaching on the machine learning battlefield, and the Go language has fortified itself in the cloud-native space. Choosing the battleground is choosing your destiny, and this decision will lock in your career trajectory for the next five years.

But the real veterans will tell you: the days of making 50,000 a month developing iOS apps in Swift are long gone. 2024 will be won or lost by mastering the full-stack explosiveness of TypeScript+Node.js, a combination that is reconfiguring the entire underlying logic of Web 3.0.

Level 2: Framework Arena

The battle for the Iron Throne between the three major front-end frameworks, React, Vue, and Angular, is getting more and more grueling. This fall, Vue3 swooped in with CompositionAPI, reducing 80% of React code to technical debt on the spot.

If you want to wrestle in the smart contract development track, you simply can’t break the moat of Ether 2.0 without playing Solidity and Rust mixin tricks to the max.

Level 3: Architecture Purgatory

Single-point server architecture has been the epitaph for the last century. When Musk’s Starchain initiative compresses latency to 20ms, is your system still using traditional load balancing? Microservices architectures are being dismembered, and Serverless and edge computing are redrawing the battlefield map.

Level 4: Collaborative Dark Web

500 code silos are created every minute on GitHub, but the real masters trade core algorithms on GitLab’s privately deployed dark web. It’s when your Docker image is automatically deployed to a Kubernetes cluster at 3am some morning that one understands what modern, industrial-grade continuous delivery is.

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Cold Warrior Killer App: Inkblade + Git panoramic workflow

The real-time collaboration nuke of Inkblade 6.0 has detonated: when the product manager modifies the prototype, Figma’s design drafts are automatically synchronized with the changes. Your React codebase generates Mock data in real time, and it all happens in the same timeline. Remember, in the code battleground of 2024, whoever realizes an automated pipeline from prototype to production first will get out of requirements change hell alive.

Dark Forest Survival Rule

Always be a wolf to new frameworks: while the industry is still debating Svelte’s price/performance ratio, you’ve delivered three trillion PV systems with the Qwik framework. But always remember – the technology stack you’re using is bound to be obsolete in three years.

Cognitive Folding Technique

Compress a decade of technology evolution into three months: digesting the WebAssembly specification with ChatGPT4 on Monday, refactoring a legacy system with Copilot on Wednesday, and already running through a quantum machine learning model on Colab on Friday. That’s the kind of time-folding a developer should be able to do.

Endgame prediction: developers are on their way to a third mass extinction

The 1945 von Neumann architecture was born, and the first coder farmer ascended to the stage of history; the 2000 Internet bubble burst, burying countless .COM dreamers; and the AI shocker of 2024 is triggering the third great extinction of developers.
But remember: whenever a technological revolution occurs, it always removes 80% of the mediocre and 5% of the survivors will take over the entire ecosystem. The question now is – are you ready to be one of those 5% predators?
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