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I agree with the other comment responding to you. Consider SQL. A typical select statement with a join and a sort would have taken a team of people months to im
by comfypotato 4y ago
I agree with the other comment responding to you. Consider SQL. A typical select statement with a join and a sort would have taken a team of people months to implement in an application-specific proprietary data-storage structure (perhaps a red black tree). Now it’s a trivial line of SQL. Like the top comment said, this has not eliminated those teams’ jobs.
- ltrojanowski 4y agoThe one difference I see is that SQL is still predictable in it's output. I don't think feeding requirements into an AI is at that state yet
- mypastself 4y agoInteresting you should mention SQL, because a lot of non-tech business people I’ve met have rudimentary SQL skills nowadays. Database administration is a dying field.
- comfypotato 4y agoI was speaking of the engineering teams that existed before database administration was formalized as a field at all. Mainframe, batch processing, and written in C: proprietary company-specific applications. Analogously, it may not be long before crud websites are created, end to end, by non-tech people with mostly natural language. That being said, today’s crud web developers won’t be out of work. Their experience writing/designing code will be put to use in more complex, potentially yet-unseen applications.