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Compared to the history of agriculture, 20 years is nothing.



What about person-years?


I find it unimaginable that more people are coding than are farming full-time (which is at least hundreds of millions). Given that agriculture is also older by >2 orders of magnitude, I think it's pretty safe to say it has more person-years behind it.


A lot of time has gone into farming in the last ten or twelve thousand years (source: nautil.us, ted.com)




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