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Re:Automatic bug-repair system fixes 10 times as many errors... by neals on Saturday January 30, 2016 @07:46AM (#11001637)
I wonder sometimes what will cause all us thousands of software-engineers to become obsolete.

Not that long ago, we'd be a massive workforce of engineers, armed with sliderules, calculating away.

http://s7.computerhistory.org/is/image/CHM/500004055-05-01?$...

In 100 years, we'll be the people in that poster, but what will replace us? Smart software? Quantum computing?

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Re:Automatic bug-repair system fixes 10 times as many errors... by nothrabannosir on Saturday January 30, 2016 @08:37AM (#11001727)
Aren't we those people in the poster? Didn't they become us?
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Re:Automatic bug-repair system fixes 10 times as many errors... by skatenerd on Saturday January 30, 2016 @11:37AM (#11002498)
did you operate a slide rule in a previous job?
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Re:Automatic bug-repair system fixes 10 times as many errors... by vile on Sunday January 31, 2016 @07:22AM (#11006180)
you must have missed the part of that advertisment which reads "No longer must valuable engineering personnel ... spend priceless creative time at routine figuring"

They're not obsolete at all, they're just doing better things with their time.

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