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That statement nicely summarizes what makes software development difficult. It’s not just memorizing the syntactic details of some programming language, or the many functions in some API, but understanding and managing the complexity of the problem you’re trying to solve. We’ve all seen this many times.

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It’s the single most popular programming language on O’Reilly, and it accounts for 10% of all usage. This year’s growth in Python usage was buoyed by its increasing popularity among data scientists and machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) engineers. In programming, Python is preeminent. Coincidence?

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It does not mean that cryptography is broken, or that we can achieve general artificial intelligence, or anything of the sort. I was introduced to programming in 1972, on computers that were incredibly small by modern standards—but they were still useful. It’s important to consider what this achievement does not mean.

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