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Re:GitHub Copilot by ticviking on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @10:55PM (#27684365)
I'm not sure that all of that has really gone away.

It's just concentrated into the hands of a very few super specialists, it's much harder to get to their level but their work is much much more important.

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Re:GitHub Copilot by chokma on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @04:10AM (#27686169)
True, and if the specialists retire, there may be some parts that no one understands properly anymore.

See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko / Preventing the Collapse of Civilization / Jonathan Blow

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Re:GitHub Copilot by Jeff_Brown on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @11:24PM (#27684499)
Better yet -- the jobs of those specialists got better, and the people who would have done similar work did not end up unemployed, they just do some other kind of programming.
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