Show HN: Software Job Title Family Tree

Hacker News New2026-11-09 17:170 views

Something I've always wanted to see, now made possible by AI: a family tree of computing / software job titles.

Hopefully it's fun for people to look at. Some of the historical detail it gathered was very interesting to me, eg the stuff about ENIAC in the 'Computer' node (1880-1940s).

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Source：https://ianmiell.github.io/sw-job-title-family-tree/

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