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Programers are going to be replaced by AI in the same way accountants got replaced by VisiCalc and engineers by CAD and mathematicians by calculators and softwa
by noncoml 1y ago
Programers are going to be replaced by AI in the same way accountants got replaced by VisiCalc and engineers by CAD and mathematicians by calculators and software like Mathematica
- cheschire 1y agoYou mean the part where you only need 5 people doing the job instead of 50?
- Legend2440 1y agoAnd yet there are more engineers and accountants employed than ever.
- cheschire 1y agoAnd yet not keeping pace with the overall population increase of America. There’s also more companies than ever before.
- noncoml 1y agoThat’s not “replacing” programmers. More like increasing their productivity
- olddustytrail 1y ago> mathematicians by calculators Calculators didn't replace mathematicians, they replaced Computers (as an occupation). To the point that most people don't even know it used to be a job for people. I say calculators but there is a blurry line between early electronic computers and calculators. Portable electronic calculators also replaced the slide rule, around the late 1970s, which had been the instrument of choice for engineers for around 350 years!
- noncoml 1y ago> Calculators didn't replace mathematicians, they replaced Computers Imho you are underestimating the work of programmers if you compare them to “Computers”
- olddustytrail 1y agoI didn't mention programmers at all in my comment. In fact the first programmers were mainly women because they came from a Computer background.