Re:Why Codeless Software Is Doomed to Fail
by username90 on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @12:44PM
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There are 3 kinds of tasks in society.
Tasks that are currently automated.
Tasks that you can automate via input from automated tasks, but is currently done manually.
Tasks which depends on other manual tasks.
Naive people tend to look at this and think "There are not a lot of tasks in the center there, soon we will have automated everything we could possibly automate!". But what actually happens is that every time someone automates something it opens up more things to be automated.
Example: Automated detection of location and good map API's allowed Uber to automate away basically all overhead from conventional taxi services. Of course since those things were automated for everyone it wasn't hard for conventional taxi services to start providing similar features, but that kind of automation wouldn't be possible without all the automation efforts done over the past decades.
Tasks that are currently automated. Tasks that you can automate via input from automated tasks, but is currently done manually. Tasks which depends on other manual tasks.
Naive people tend to look at this and think "There are not a lot of tasks in the center there, soon we will have automated everything we could possibly automate!". But what actually happens is that every time someone automates something it opens up more things to be automated.
Example: Automated detection of location and good map API's allowed Uber to automate away basically all overhead from conventional taxi services. Of course since those things were automated for everyone it wasn't hard for conventional taxi services to start providing similar features, but that kind of automation wouldn't be possible without all the automation efforts done over the past decades.