Watch out, coders -- a robot may take your job, too
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But as we slide down the backside of the cycle, the pain will be shared quite broadly
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I don't think this is the case. I think they might lose their jobs to automation eventually, but they will be the last ones to do so. If the programmers will lose job to some form of A.I. (because robots really won't do) it will probably at such state of things (civilization) that it won't matter financially. It would mean that either utopia or dystopia of society has arrived. If somehow I'm wrong and highly expert system would replaced us without being intelligent then you can still either program better A.I. or better software automation programs or just go easy and turn to the dark side (of programming). :~
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I have a few thoughts, first the shameless plug: Why Computers Haven't Replaced Programmers[^] - I'm irritated by the sensational title the author puts on their article, then 4 paragraphs in he changes from robots replacing programmers to robots replacing other non-technical jobs for the remainder of the article. - Otherwise, the point about Junior and chess is valid. But then again, chess is such a well defined game with a small set of rules that just happens to have a large problem space. This has made it difficult to beat humans up to this point. Unleashing robots to write software for LOB applications. If the managers and customers can't specify the requirements clearly enough to humans the first time, what hope is there that a robot will be able to decipher what was meant/desired/intended/needed and provide the right solution. I do plan on worrying about this for quite a while.
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