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Obviously it is likely all the men in the world have been laid off, died off, retired, or have gone into other engineering fields with real jobs;-). I also noticed there might be a tiny emphasis on convincing primary women and minorities that programming is a viable career choice while others types of people are pushed to the sidelines and this is what you may have noticed on WP. Take for instance, much AI training is currently done by mostly women in poorer countries around the world because of the deleterious nature of the work and lower wages. So yes, someone should put in the article an archive picture that showed men where programmers. Septagram (talk) 16:06, 10 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
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Concerns were raised last year about AI-generated content in this article. This is a procedural talk page section to discuss it. There is no need to ping me in response. Gnomingstuff (talk) 06:21, 15 May 2026 (UTC)Reply
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