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Weaving is art. Should we replace "programming" and "programmers" with "weaving" and "weavers" in this write-up and refer to history and how it worked out for
by p2detar 27d ago
Weaving is art.
Should we replace "programming" and "programmers" with "weaving" and "weavers" in this write-up and refer to history and how it worked out for weavers during the industrial revolution, I think it is clear where all this is going.
I know some people are mad about this and I am as well. However, as someone that is 20+ years in the field, I feel I've seen enough to say things are fundamentally and irreversibly changing.
- sashank_1509 27d agoI’ve thought of this and even societally outcomes seem pretty bad. > Replace detailed unique clothes with cookie cutter bland clothes > Replace a job with craftsmanship and skill to a mind numbing boring job that possesses very little skill > The machines still do a much worse job than a good tailor, but most of the public don’t care and can’t even judge good quality vs bad. > We got a lot more clothes and freed a certain class of people to go work on other stuff (this second point is a bit doubtful as in the immediate future they just worked in sweatshops but eventually maybe? ) So yeah kind of a stupid trade in retrospect, I suspect programming will go the same way. We’ll drown in mountains of functional slop, all apps currently will be made by agents. Public will have more software / don’t care and a good human programmer will still clock agents in code quality, which is a subjective aesthetic metric.
- _rousbound 27d agoI think the metaphor is useful to illustrate what can happen in the industry, but reducing the whole matter of AI to this metaphor falls short. Programs are not clothes that we dress and undress, specially when running on our cellphones, they are more like organs.