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I must be one heck of a cynic then. Working in the electronics industry I see EDA tools doing more and more. When it comes to software developers try to automat
by anfilt 9y ago
I must be one heck of a cynic then. Working in the electronics industry I see EDA tools doing more and more. When it comes to software developers try to automate a lot work if they can. Heck just think of build scripts. We are now using neural networks to build a model for algorithms we don't even know how to code.
So far these all still involve a person operating them. However, what if things get good enough that you don't need massive teams of people as before? There are so many things that can be automated. There is no way the thought of being safe from automation applies to 94% of people. Just shows how naive/deluded we can be as people. If this poll's sample represents the average population's view on the topic we are in for a rude awakening. If that is the case it would seem majority of us are just coasting along in la-la land instead of being aware.
- zeckalpha 9y agoIdris’ codegen comes to mind... just write the types and automation will write most of the code for you.
- yorwba 9y agoThat doesn't fundamentally change anything, though. It just puts the code that matters in the types. Just like macros, or procedures, or assembly; it only changes how a program is specified. It does not automate away the ability to transform fuzzy business requirements into deterministic logic by describing a way to achieve them in a formal language, i.e. "programming".
- zeckalpha 9y agoIt is a new layer of abstraction. A new “secret weapon”: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
- taneq 9y agoThat's the thing. You don't have to replace every human in order for it to be scary. Current tech is perfectly capable of replacing 4 out of every 5 low-skilled workers, and that's enough to royally screw our current economic model.