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> most companies want to use COTS solutions This was true 20 years ago too, and yet the demand for developers is as great as ever despite more and more COTS ty
by poulsbohemian 8y ago
> most companies want to use COTS solutions
This was true 20 years ago too, and yet the demand for developers is as great as ever despite more and more COTS type solutions available each day. I'm not being critical of your viewpoint, rather I'd like to understand what you believe has changed or is changing. Especially, I'm curious what role you believe robotics plays in that.
- sys_64738 8y agoTake Python which is a language with a continually growing number of frameworks. Those frameworks take care of the majority of the grunt work that developers have traditionally had to do. The API extensibility of those frameworks it the modern COTS experience. Those APIs are all destined for the cloud and the majority of your functionality will be consumed by those cloud APIs. Your job as a programmer is merely to sow a few of those APIs together to create a shim layer of functionality with a pretty user interface. When you get to this level of simplicity then the human factor can be quickly replaced. That's where robotics comes in.