> The next job on the chopping block, in my opinion, is that of a human optimizer. In fact the only reason it hasn’t been eliminated yet is economical. It’s sti

> The next job on the chopping block, in my opinion, is that of a human optimizer. In fact the only reason it hasn’t been eliminated yet is economical. It’s still cheaper to hire people to optimize code than it is to invest in the necessary infrastructure. What would that infrastructure be, exactly? You can write a program that performs any mathematical operation. A program that can handle any input program, and optimize it as well as any human could, would need to be an AI with at least human intelligence, and a deep understanding of all known mathematics. But then we're told that mathematical knowledge is a defense against automation? One wonders why we don't just hand all the math off to this optimization AI.