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deprecated.engineer’s software-craft eulogy

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Editorial interest 78/100 Selection signal · not a rating of the site

An essay about software engineering’s shift from hands-on craft to AI-assisted work sits alongside an in-browser JavaScript scratchpad and a searchable tool archive that currently shows no entries.

Landing page captured for the 2026-11-13 issue.

For: Software engineers drawn to programming history
Worth noticing: The archive is labeled 1987–now, but its visible result currently reads “Nothing here. Even the ghosts moved on.”

Field notes

The essay moves from Perl, direct FTP deployments, and knowing a stack down to the syscall through frameworks, standardized interviews, layoffs, and AI agents. Its scratchpad offers a Fibonacci example plus presets for a clean function, a missing brace, and a typo. The archive section claims a 1987-to-now span, but currently displays no results.

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✦PrettyNotable craft visible

●ProPolished or operationally mature

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