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And the human performers of many of these tasks have been replaced not by AIs but by VBA scripts. It's almost a trope that many Hackernews' first jobs were some
by bitwize 3y ago
And the human performers of many of these tasks have been replaced not by AIs but by VBA scripts. It's almost a trope that many Hackernews' first jobs were something of this type, and on the first day they wrote a VBA script to do most or all of it and then collected pay for, effectively, playing Minesweeper all day.
- mhuffman 3y agoThis is true, and how I got into software development as a job, but going forward they will likely be replaced by AI agents off of some site like Zapier.