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This is an insightful comment. It smells of Jevron's paradox, right? More productivity leads to increased demand. I just don't remember anyone saying that SO w
by jvanderbot 2y ago
This is an insightful comment. It smells of Jevron's paradox, right? More productivity leads to increased demand.
I just don't remember anyone saying that SO would replace programmers, because you could just copy-paste code from a website and run it. Yet here we are: GPTs will replace programmers, because you can just copy-paste code from a website and run it.
- sanderjd 2y agoPeople definitely said this about SO!
- johnnyanmac 2y agoThose people never tried googling anything past entry level. It's at best a way to get some example documentation for core languages.
- tguedes 2y agoI completely agree with Jevron's paradox being the right way to think about this. Much like ERP and HR software made it so you needed less back of office staff to accomplish the same task, but it allows these huge, multi-national companies to exist. I don't think these tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands employee companies would be possible without ERP and HR software. I think another way of thinking about this is with low-code/no code tools. Another comment in this post said they never really took off and they didn't in the way some people expected. But a lot of large companies use them quite a bit for automating internal processes such as document/data aggregation and manipulation. JP Morgan has multiple job listings right now for RPA developers. Before this would needed to be done by actual developers. I suspect (and hope) AI will follow a similar trajectory. I hope the future is exciting and we build new, more complex systems we can build that wasn't possible before due to lack of