“Person on internet can perform basic arithmetic, demonstrates by counting instances of repeat content.” is a headline that:
1) we’ve seen over and over
2) adds little to the context at hand
You’re not wrong. You’re late to the game spotting patterns of reposting (it happens deal with it for yourself) and undermining the context (putting it on others to do better by your expectations.)
You have a body and mind that can be trained to find and reflect on more interesting patterns and ideas. Have at it. Don’t bemoan all of reality not conforming to your current state of cognitive awareness
If the human element to this story was “cat gifs”, you might have a point.
The human element here is “world governments and multinational corps beholden to nobody want to insert the first of possibly many back doors into your emotional life”
Sit down. You’re just looking for attention for your ability to notice a basic pattern.
I dated a “web developer” who worked for the county. She used a Photoshop like tool to update the layout of an intranet, and occasionally straighten some PHP.
She knows nothing of computer science, just the tools she was trained on. She knew nothing about how the hardware works, that RAM and SSD were different types of memory or which situations make one preferable to the other, cause that was already figured out in the tooling.
There are a lot of people who work like that and call themselves software engineers.
We’re ultimately trying to make hardware do something, but rather than that, we invented more ornate interfaces to the same old hardware for … jobs.
A hardware based future where the onboard ML chip can generate a AAA game or Pixar level media will happen. Because then they don’t have to pay a bunch of coders or artists.
Greers “program the perimeter, not the area” comes to mind. Most software is simple logic and network effects. As our manufacturing process allow us to make customizable silicon from step 1, why not listen to Greer, bake the best perimeter for a task into hardware?
Remember; human function names and object names are for human consumption. We could write a whole lot less if not for all the programmers who need context.
We know from our hardware platforms what we can and cannot compute; their spec defines the limits. We don’t need dozens of competing languages when our goal is “reserve memory, compute values in that memory in this order, free memory when done”.
My startup is focusing on learning what code shapes are ok from the context of security and developing a filtering tool to avoid allowing merging commits that violate that spec.
We have a lot of interest from DOD and SV companies, in the form of “pre-emptively avoid security issues via coders who write stupid code.”
Eventually we’ll have tailor made hardware with little to no generally programmable surface area.
Because our generation of computing is behind us. Kids now just want the thing to emit results.
The thing that’s holding them back is maintenance of “career oriented job life”. Rather than build programs, software people babysit dependency lists and process. Google products are a mess because it’s about capturing worker and customer agency, not engineering novel things.
I hate my job which specifically exists because 2-5 people, founders, investors, eventually some manager, or some “owner” of socially valuable land or machinery, said this is the work they’ll pay for.
I’m not a family member or friend of people in a system like that. Since those people too kowtowed to doing a job for someone else, not finding work of value to their experience.
He was speaking as if it was still 1980s. Now we have cloud based ML doing the optimization finding.
ML will (eventually) be able to generate biz logic code, and most assuredly infrastructure config (a cloud API has a limited set of possible configs of value to our sorting patterns), UI code (we gravitate towards a limited set of UX it seems), to solve much of our daily programming work.
ML can’t invent future ideas, it can’t evolve itself without us making new hardware for it. But it will implode the blue collar dev job market eventually.
You don’t HAVE to commit code to a git repo they control.
The socio-political reality isn’t like 100 years ago.
As soon as Wall Street is seriously threatened by a worker related revolt, laws change.
Keep the laptop shut and DON’T “job from home” (work is not the same as a social job).
But come now, let’s all coalesce around a VC incubators forum instead.
If the US is truly a nation of free people, why do they keep doing as they are told?