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> As you depend more on robots (literal or figurative) to execute process, over time you're likely losing a body of knowledgable/craft-capable practitioners. W
by rodgerd 13y ago
> As you depend more on robots (literal or figurative) to execute process, over time you're likely losing a body of knowledgable/craft-capable practitioners.
We should understand this well from software. There's plenty of airline and financial software people don't want to meddle with too much because the people who remember the business rules behind it are retired or dead.
- kalleboo 13y agoMy father is actually in the process of this right now. He was one of the few people in his company who worked on the rules coded into the current software written in the 70's-80's. He's the only one who can tell the programmers why certain things were done (if they were significant, or just optimizations to make the batches run in time on the VAX hardware of the time). He's heading up the project to port the whole thing to a more modern system, but he's planning to retire soon...