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For a bright career in the AI age, key skills programmers should develop

 In a post on X that has sparked widespread debate, Karpathy confessed: “I’ve never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between.” Earlier, programmers wrote most of the software themselves. They planned the code, wrote every line, and fixed problems manually. Now, AI tools are doing many of these tasks. Because of this, the amount of code written directly by humans is reducing. Ref https://www.financialexpress.com/life/technology-teslas-former-ai-chief-andrej-karpathy-warns-software-engineers-says-never-felt-this-far-behind-as-a-programmer-4092061/ Based on the article about Andrej Karpathy's warning and the broader trends in AI-driven software development, programmers should focus on developing a blend of **technical, cognitive, and strategic skills** to stay relevant. The era of simply writing lines of code is evolving into one where programmers act as **archit...

The Perils of Short-Term Forecasting: Lessons Across Industries for Analysts

  The Perils of Short-Term Forecasting: Lessons Across Industries Forecasting is as much an art as it is a science. Yet history shows that analysts often fall into the trap of extrapolating recent performance, ignoring longer cycles of valuation, regulation, or technological change. This tendency to focus narrowly on short-term data has led to some of the most notable misjudgments across finance, healthcare, technology, and beyond. Stock Market Missteps In 1929, economist Irving Fisher famously declared that stock prices had reached a “permanently high plateau.” His optimism, rooted in the roaring 1920s bull market, overlooked the decade-long buildup of speculative debt and overvaluation. The result was the Great Depression crash. Similar errors resurfaced during the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s. Analysts such as James Glassman predicted the Dow would soar to 36,000, extrapolating short-term tech stock surges while ignoring unsustainable valuations and lack of profits. The...