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Interesting read that harkens back to my econ days. I agree with the author based on my experience that digitizing a process often requires the developer to kno
by agomez314 5y ago
Interesting read that harkens back to my econ days. I agree with the author based on my experience that digitizing a process often requires the developer to know the system better than the person who operates it - due to the nature of programming. I wonder if AI is really the way to transform software development into a General-Purpose-Technology. Codex is showing the way, in a niche and gimmicky way, but such is the way that many great ideas start. It's really hard to know though if _this is it_ or if it's merely another invention in a long line of inventions that failed to make it.
Sometimes it just seems like we are swimming in a sea of code with no apparent gain. Incredible to think that people managed the construction of Pyramids, Cathedrals and awesome constructions with nothing but papyrus, ink, leather straps and good ol' memory. I can't even remember the function arguments for fs.read!