Comment by kalleboo

2 years ago

> You're all literally writing CRUD React front-end javascript by copy-pasting "for" loops from StackOverflow?

To an approximation, yes.

The underlying calculations at my bank were probably written once in 1970 in COBOL and haven't changed meaningfully since. But the front-end UI to access it has gone from teletypes and punch cards to glass terminals to networked DOS to Win32 to ActiveX to Web 2.0 to React and mobile apps. Lots and lots of churn and work on the CRUD part, zero churn and work on the "need to remember logarithms" part.

AI? You have core teams building ChatGPT, Midjourney, etc. Then huge numbers of people accessing those via API, building CRUD sites to aggregate midjourney results and prompts, etc etc. Even Apple has made a drag-and-drop UI to train an AI object classifier, the ratio of people who had to know the math to make that vs the people using it is probably way above 1:100,000