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Re:Ask HN: What is the Holy Grail for Software Engineering? by balakk on Friday December 03, 2010 @08:24PM (#1968090)
Enterprise software perspective - IT managed directly by business users. In that, the system can accept natural language descriptions of business logic, resolve ambiguity, and can self-modify, maintain, and heal itself. In other words, a virtual software architect.
Re:Ask HN: What is the Holy Grail for Software Engineering? by d0mine on Friday December 03, 2010 @11:02PM (#1968454)
Such system would be necessarily self-conscious with all severe problems it implies and human reproduction already produces such systems.