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How many computer programmers really work on the complex problems; speech recognition, computer vision, etc; though? Even games, how many programmers are writin
by 6d0debc071 13y ago
How many computer programmers really work on the complex problems; speech recognition, computer vision, etc; though? Even games, how many programmers are writing really top-notch engines? How's their share of the pie break down as compared to the rapid explosion of in the assets side of things?
It seems to me, and I may be wrong on this, that the complexity of the problems that most programmers are approaching doesn't scale on a 1:1 basis with the power of their tools.
- nostrademons 13y agoThere's complex technical work, and there's complex social work. The programmers who use a speech recognition API to solve a human problem - say, hands-free in-car navigation - are doing work that's every bit as difficult as building the speech recognition API in the first place. And they're often more highly compensated for it, if they succeed - it's just the risk structure of trying to match known technology to unknown problems is a lot more vague than trying to match unknown technology to known problems.
- jiggy2011 13y agoIf there's one thing I have learnt , it is that you can make "simple" problems arbitrarily complex (and if you don't someone else will). If all of our "CRUD apps" were truly just CRUD apps we would have built them all in 10 minutes with rails scaffold.
- LordHumungous 13y agoDon't underestimate the difficulty in making something not just work, but work well, and for millions of people.