Re:Ask HN: Why did Visual Basic die?
by underlipton on Monday September 11, 2023 @03:31PM
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I used it as a coding layman in 15-buck-an-hour "admin" (clerk/secretary) roles to automate some processes that my predecessors had done by hand. Mostly just copying entries from a spreadsheet to company Excel/Powerpoint templates and printing them without killing myself copy/pasting or going into the save/print dialog 50 times. It did its work as something any old schmuck could harness to save themselves from carpal tunnel.
To that point, I imagine that there are a LOT of admin jobs (or, at least, a lot of tasks) that could be almost completely automated away. It's probably not even a capability issue, but one of job security on the employee side and a lack of *waves hands vaguely* on the employer side.
To that point, I imagine that there are a LOT of admin jobs (or, at least, a lot of tasks) that could be almost completely automated away. It's probably not even a capability issue, but one of job security on the employee side and a lack of *waves hands vaguely* on the employer side.