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Who cares about developing skills machines can do better. I don’t spend hours with a handsaw so I can cut perfect perpendicular cuts in wood, I just use a miter
by huytersd 3y ago
Who cares about developing skills machines can do better. I don’t spend hours with a handsaw so I can cut perfect perpendicular cuts in wood, I just use a miter saw that does it perfectly 99% of the time. That lets me concentrate on the next thing on the value chain that machines can’t do yet.
There’s plenty of woodworkers that work exclusively with hand tools for the joy of it and that where a lot of programming will be a decade in the future.
- Guthur 3y agoThat's fair, so it isn't self development just like i said? glad you agree.
- huytersd 3y agoI think being able to get better at things higher in the value chain does count as self development.
- calvinmorrison 3y agoBecause well, for me we are designing tools not doing manual labor. The tool is designed once and well. Then the computer executes it 50 million times. Automated tool design is cool but the ROI for us is not developer hours minimized but number of users.
- huytersd 3y agoThe ROI for any business is number of users. What tools? Do you mean physical tools or are you referring to a program as a tool?
- calvinmorrison 3y agoThe software I make is the tool. The user uses my tool millions of times. The cost of adding a user is close to zero. So the power for me isn't in reducing developer costs
- huytersd 3y agoYeah that’s all development/programming.