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hey guys how you doing uncle Steph here
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so yeah it's the end of software
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development as we know it things are
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beginning to change so in this video I'm
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going to give you the background why
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it's changing number two I'm going to
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give you a road map for beginners what
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to do and for experienced developers as
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well so three key concepts to consider
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three key concepts number one
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AI number two low code number three no
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code these are the
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technologies that are changing software
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development in a big way i've seen major
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changes happen before where a new
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technology comes and replaces an old
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technology so I've been coding
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professionally since the early 90s and I
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saw the rise of web development
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replacing which was the popular way of
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development which was thick client
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development mainly on Windows be all to
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be honest with you so when the web came
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out all the traditional thick client VB5
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VB6
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programmers decom programmers these
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people started freaking out because they
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could they saw this shift towards web
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development and uh I remember they were
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saying at the time the web the thick
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client developers they were saying that
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web development was junk the technology
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is crap compared to thick client um in
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many ways they were correct web
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development basically using web
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technologies to develop applications it
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was crap compared to thick client
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development but it didn't matter because
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the web brought to the table
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uh huge advantages that the traditional
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thick client development didn't bring so
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mainly not having to install an
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application on hundreds of desktops
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right you develop your web app people
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just navigate to the site and that's it
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so one code base to maintain no
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deployments no no multi- no not having
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to deploy on many many different uh
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computers so if you needed to update the
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software you didn't have to update 500
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workstations you just had to update the
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one on the server so it was it was very
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compelling even
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though at that time web development was
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very primitive compared to thick client
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development and very primitive compared
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to what we have today so with AI low
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code and no code platforms we are seeing
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another big shift in that way uh I've
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been looking around we are starting to
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see uh some some types of development
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where you're seeing the jobs are uh
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they're not hiring anymore so more and
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more people are coming into the market
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newbs but they're trained in the old
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ways they're trained in the old ways so
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they're running into problems so the key
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as a beginner the key strategy to get a
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job as a developer is to start thinking
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about where development is going to be
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in 2 three years from now stop looking
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backwards in time right so what's where
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is it going to be in two three years
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from now well it's going to be AI based
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low code and no code platforms now you
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still need to know your basics but if
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you can embrace these platforms uh and
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these technologies and become an expert
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in them you will do very well so imagine
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you are a developer you have your basic
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understanding of software development so
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you know the languages the key languages
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probably Python JavaScript little bit of
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web and you understand the options that
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are out there you have all these
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different AI models as an example you
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got GPT you have three and four and
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three mini etc then you got Grock and
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you got uh code and there's many others
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so you have all these AI now you have to
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look at these AIs in the same way you
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look at programming languages and
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libraries and frameworks they are all
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options that you can choose uh for the
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job so imagine you're a developer and
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you have a very good understanding of
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all the models that are out there at
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least most of them so that when you are
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hired or as a contractor or you're hired
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as a freelancer or you get a job one of
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the things that will make you valuable
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is that you will have a good
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understanding of the different models
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that are out there and their
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capabilities and you know when this
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model might be used or that model might
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be used given the needs of a particular
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job
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same thing with the low code and the no
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code platforms i'm talking like I'm
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talking about things like Air Table as
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an example when it comes to mind but I
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would also even look at platforms like
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Wix and uh Squarespace if you will uh
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Shopify WordPress these are all low and
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no code uh choices that a developer has
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to choose from so this is a scope of
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knowledge that if you have it will give
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you an advantage in the marketplace you
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have to think about it most business
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people the suits as I like to call them
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they don't know a Squarespace from a
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WordPress from a a React they don't
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understand they don't know and that's
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where the developer comes in the
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developer knows the developer can go in
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there and offer uh a reasoned and expert
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advice about which platform to choose
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which one to use given the needs of the
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particular job the development in 2025
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and going forward as the business of
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understanding all these different
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platforms and putting them to use so the
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strategy for a beginner is to
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um is to learn your basics so you
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understand your way around the web and
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so forth you know Python no bit of
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JavaScript you're comfortable writing
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code as you learn to code I suggest you
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use a good beginner's course that will
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get you there and then uh once you've
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gotten through like if you're doing my
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courses as an example you don't have to
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do my course you do my interactive
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training courses in Python and
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JavaScript and the web and so on do
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those and then I say when you're about
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uh when you've done those courses and
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you're starting and you're building web
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apps basic web apps and so forth then
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you got to get you got to get into AI
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you have to start using AI to help you
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to learn help you to write code more
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quickly and then you got to start
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studying the AI that are out there the
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different models are out there so you
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get you get you start getting start
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getting familiar with them same thing
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with the low code and no code platforms
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would be Zapier Air Table zapier's for
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automations Air Table WordPress maybe
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when to use
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Shopify and there's other tools out
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there paypal when to use PayPal so all
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these things you have to learn so you
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notice I'm not talking about getting
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deep into algorithms and deep into data
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structures that's going to become
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antiquated at some point very soon
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although anybody who knows me you know
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that I haven't been a big uh a big
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proponent of these things to begin with
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so for pros it's pretty much the same
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thing for pros if you're already an
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active developer React or Express or
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Java developer just get into AI man just
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get into AI start learning about it
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learn the different models uh jump into
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the low code and no code become very
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valuable in fact you see that more and
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more i'm reading more and more articles
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where companies are now training up
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their developers in AI that's it so
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learn that stuff don't resist it just
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embrace it and I think uh once this
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transition phase from what we do now in
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terms of development into the new low
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code AI dominated space I think you'll
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see a rise in developer jobs it's just
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that what we do as day-to-day developers
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will change a bit so that's the future
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the future of development will be low
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code no code and AI it's an abstraction
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as I like to say and again this is
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nothing new i have seen this before i
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have seen the development world change
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from uh for example I use the thick
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client from thick client to web and that
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was the biggest one I've seen in my
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lifetime but there's been others as well
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within even the web development there
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was different ways of approaching web
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development and new ways came about like
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how we built web apps and sites in the
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mid and late 90s changed quite a bit in
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2002 2005 period there was a big shift
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so uh yeah for me no big deal just go
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with the flow and here's the big bright
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spot in this whenever you see a big
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technology change like this when you see
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it go from technology A to technology
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B huge opportunities are created huge
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opportunities are created whether
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entrepreneurial
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opportunities or whether
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um or whether job opportunities because
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new businesses will be formed new
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opportunities will be formed and the the
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the skill set you're going to need for
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that time is just going to change as
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well
