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I think coding is already a tool for professionals to build things around their domain knowledge --- and this is already since 40 years, when the first programm
by ktpsns 7y ago
I think coding is already a tool for professionals to build things around their domain knowledge --- and this is already since 40 years, when the first programmable desk calculators came. BASIC was an enabler technology for scientists to programmatically approach their domain. Engineers, physicists, chemicists, etc could use it well without studying CS. In some way, a modern Jupiter notebook is just the equivalent of an average 1970s BASIC calculator with attached plotter device.
Where do we go? There always have been the frontiers of computing, this is where CS sepcialists are required. The old saying, that an IT guy works hard on making his own position superfluous, has always been a bit true in some sense. I don't think that's bad at all.
I which computer scientists would be aware of their competences but could acknowledge that they never gain as much domain specific knowledge as the experts they work together with. I've seen quite some computer science guys who thought of themselves like they could replace everybody. That's not quite true.