Re:Software will eat software in a remote-first world
by dragonwriter on Monday May 25, 2020 @01:41PM
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> Its not going to save us from all of the work, but it does eliminate a lot of redundant work.
It's not going to eliminate work in software development, it's going to increase work in developing software systems by increasing the average value of each unit of work, and, simultaneously, move the average level of the work higher up the abstraction ladder, just as every advance in software productivity since “what if we didn't have to code directly in machine code and instead has software that would assemble machine code from something one-step more abstract”.
It's not going to eliminate work in software development, it's going to increase work in developing software systems by increasing the average value of each unit of work, and, simultaneously, move the average level of the work higher up the abstraction ladder, just as every advance in software productivity since “what if we didn't have to code directly in machine code and instead has software that would assemble machine code from something one-step more abstract”.