Comment by jf22
2 days ago
When the loom came out the people who loved weaving by hand stopped being as valuable.
That's where we are right now. The best bespoke hand-crafted coders are far less valuable than they used to be.
It sucks for the weavers who loved to weave, but this is the consequence of technological progress.
I am starting to find these comparisons bothersome.
It’s not a loom, or a car, or a printing press or python vs punch cards.
It is very different, and the facility “Management” is hoping to replace, is decision-making, and not some predictable mechanical repetitive tasks.
The thing itself is more similar to an idiot savant with no memory or understanding. Getting it to do the right thing is sometimes easy, sometimes more difficult than doing it yourself, and sometimes catastrophic. Letting it on without supervision is almost guaranteed catastrophic.
“Management” trying to replace people with it is a function of perceiving people as cogs.
>“Management” trying to replace people with it is a function of perceiving people as cogs.
Is it? Isn't this just what happens in a capitalist system?