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If a robot can write code in our environment and deal with all the politics and stupid decisions and wishy washy product direction (we don't know what we want,

If a robot can write code in our environment and deal with all the politics and stupid decisions and wishy washy product direction (we don't know what we want, just implement everything) and broken technologies, you're welcome Mr Robot.

redleggedfrog 9y ago
I laughed out loud at this. I do wonder how robots will deal with our fickle human ways. How will they help a person who can't even express themselves in words or speech because they're near illiterate? This isn't a facile question - this is a large percentage of the people I've written software for.
- sametmax 9y ago
  But after laughing I'm crying. Because what will happend is that the robot won't deal with it. Their creators will simply assume the use case is only 1% of their input and will just lock it out. We will live in a more and more standardized and inflexible society. It's happening already. This week, I had to bring a car for a second checkup and I was late to my appointment. The gal told me I had to reschedule because the computer didn't allow to be late at a second checkup: the date between the first and the second was fixed. Because I'm a computer scientist, I knew what to do: let's "forget" about the whole thing and create a new "first checkup" for which I could come without a schedule. I told her and she though it was a great idea and we worked around the system. Luckily they didn't have a check for that and she was able to do my checkup. So when the robot will take your job, they will just ignore a whole lot of cases and make everyone not fitting the exact size of the box living in hell.
  - EADGBE 9y ago
    I fear for when the system doesn't allow it. "Sorry, I can't do that on this computer" shouldn't be a thing. But it already is.
- yawz 9y ago
  > I do wonder how robots will deal with our fickle human ways. They won't have to. Politics are human ways. But, who knows? When they reach super-intelligence, maybe they're going to become competitive, jealous, envious, greedy, etc. as well.

redleggedfrog 9y ago

I laughed out loud at this. I do wonder how robots will deal with our fickle human ways. How will they help a person who can't even express themselves in words or speech because they're near illiterate? This isn't a facile question - this is a large percentage of the people I've written software for.

sametmax 9y ago
But after laughing I'm crying. Because what will happend is that the robot won't deal with it. Their creators will simply assume the use case is only 1% of their input and will just lock it out. We will live in a more and more standardized and inflexible society. It's happening already. This week, I had to bring a car for a second checkup and I was late to my appointment. The gal told me I had to reschedule because the computer didn't allow to be late at a second checkup: the date between the first and the second was fixed. Because I'm a computer scientist, I knew what to do: let's "forget" about the whole thing and create a new "first checkup" for which I could come without a schedule. I told her and she though it was a great idea and we worked around the system. Luckily they didn't have a check for that and she was able to do my checkup. So when the robot will take your job, they will just ignore a whole lot of cases and make everyone not fitting the exact size of the box living in hell.
- EADGBE 9y ago
  I fear for when the system doesn't allow it. "Sorry, I can't do that on this computer" shouldn't be a thing. But it already is.
yawz 9y ago
> I do wonder how robots will deal with our fickle human ways. They won't have to. Politics are human ways. But, who knows? When they reach super-intelligence, maybe they're going to become competitive, jealous, envious, greedy, etc. as well.