Comment by aerhardt
6 days ago
> This is misleading. The job of blacksmith wasn't automated away. There's just no demand for their services anymore, because we no longer have knights wearing armor, brandishing swords, and riding horses. In contrast, computer software is not disappearing; if anything, it's becoming ubiquitous.
Why didn't blacksmiths produce rail tracks, if not because they were replaced by more efficient processes? One could say iron and steel became as ubiquitous during the Industrial Revolution as computer software is becoming today...
> Why didn't blacksmiths produce rail tracks
This is really a silly and pointless discussion, as well as totally irrelevant.
The linked article made very clear that Claude had to be closely, strictly guided and supervised by expert software developers. Claude is not threatening them with extinction.