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Engineering will soon be ‘more parenting than programming’

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    Kent Sharkey
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    Singularity Hub[^]:

    "...I think the majority of engineering will not be done in a way where people understand the products of the creation. It'll be more like an act of parenting than programming. It might take 10 to 15 years before that sentiment is widespread."

    But you'll still have to change the diapers

    And now my eyes won't roll back to normal

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      Singularity Hub[^]:

      "...I think the majority of engineering will not be done in a way where people understand the products of the creation. It'll be more like an act of parenting than programming. It might take 10 to 15 years before that sentiment is widespread."

      But you'll still have to change the diapers

      And now my eyes won't roll back to normal

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      Christopher Shields
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      And parenting will become more like programming ;P

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        Singularity Hub[^]:

        "...I think the majority of engineering will not be done in a way where people understand the products of the creation. It'll be more like an act of parenting than programming. It might take 10 to 15 years before that sentiment is widespread."

        But you'll still have to change the diapers

        And now my eyes won't roll back to normal

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        David ONeil
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        Very few parents understand tolerance stackups. :rolleyes: (And, given the companies I've worked for, few of them are willing to invest in the capital required to create such systems. Largely thanks to investors. :rolleyes:)

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          Singularity Hub[^]:

          "...I think the majority of engineering will not be done in a way where people understand the products of the creation. It'll be more like an act of parenting than programming. It might take 10 to 15 years before that sentiment is widespread."

          But you'll still have to change the diapers

          And now my eyes won't roll back to normal

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          Lost User
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          The next silver bullet that will become a buzzword, get on everybody's nerves for a while and then (ironically) go the way of the dinosaurs. Ironically, because it's essentially an evolutionary algorithm with the fitness function partially replaced by human interaction. The downside is, that the evolution of something not trivial may take a few generations with many candidates. That means the whole process may take some time, as a non-trivial test of each candidate and the also non-trivial fitness function will limit the number of candidates per second severely and manual 'parenting' will only slow down the process.

          The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
          This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
          "I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.

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            Singularity Hub[^]:

            "...I think the majority of engineering will not be done in a way where people understand the products of the creation. It'll be more like an act of parenting than programming. It might take 10 to 15 years before that sentiment is widespread."

            But you'll still have to change the diapers

            And now my eyes won't roll back to normal

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            Lost User
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            I was starting to feel that way but only because I am now in the pool of Sr. Engineers vs. Jr./Green

            Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet. The interesting thing about software is it can not reproduce, until it can.

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              Singularity Hub[^]:

              "...I think the majority of engineering will not be done in a way where people understand the products of the creation. It'll be more like an act of parenting than programming. It might take 10 to 15 years before that sentiment is widespread."

              But you'll still have to change the diapers

              And now my eyes won't roll back to normal

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              Joe Woodbury
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              Yet more words from someone collecting a paycheck for doing, well, nothing except saying weird stuff. Not altogether different from what Kent writes WITHOUT a PhD.... :)

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