Comment by danieltanfh95
6 hours ago
> The demand for software most certainly has an upper limit.
No, it does not. There is no ceiling for complexity.
6 hours ago
> The demand for software most certainly has an upper limit.
No, it does not. There is no ceiling for complexity.
>> The demand for software most certainly has an upper limit.
> No, it does not. There is no ceiling for complexity.
There's an upper limit on everything. Maybe there's no ceiling on incidental complexity for s/ware development, but there sure as shit a ceiling on the essential complexity.
s/complexity/entropy
No ceiling.
Exactly and this is true of many things. Much of the world is not zero sum, otherwise we'd have fallen into the "malthusian trap" several productivity booms ago.
but, as the layoffs demonstrate, there is a ceiling for employed software engineers...
And when the required complexity of software to do the task gets high enough, you assign an agent to do the task instead.
Entropy makes sure that you can't scale systems into infinite completely.
We have thought that a few times with earlier technologies - a smaller chip requires less local reduction of entropy than a room sized computer. This may keep going for a long time yet.