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I don't think we'll ever get around having to build software with code and highly trained developers. The world is still very much custom engineered, from archi
by rbranson 16y ago
I don't think we'll ever get around having to build software with code and highly trained developers. The world is still very much custom engineered, from architecture to civil engineering, electrical to mechanical engineering, even mass produced items have relatively few interchangeable parts.
- prosa 16y agoI agree. However, it is worth examining places like Dubai -- the tallest building in the world, and indeed practically an entire new city, was built by unskilled laborers working for dollars a day. That's a compelling case for commoditization of talent, but in the end I think it's just a heuristic improvement. It gets you pretty far, but at the end of the day you still have huge teams of PhDs and M.Archs doing the actual engineering. (If that was commoditized it would be a scary world indeed!)
- rbanffy 16y ago> an entire new city, was built by unskilled laborers working for dollars a day. Let's see if it's still standing a couple decades from now.
- werrett 16y ago>> an entire new city, was built by unskilled laborers working for dollars a day. > Let's see if it's still standing a couple decades from now. I didn't realise that it was solely teams of skilled engineers and artisans doing the riveting on Empire State back in 1930.
- rbanffy 16y agoYou do, of course, understand how over-engineered is the Empire State by today's standards. I seriously doubt 30's margins are still being applied.