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Re:AI CapEx Is Eating the Economy by olddustytrail on Saturday July 19, 2025 @12:54PM (#44617147)
> mathematicians by calculators

Calculators didn't replace mathematicians, they replaced Computers (as an occupation). To the point that most people don't even know it used to be a job for people.

I say calculators but there is a blurry line between early electronic computers and calculators. Portable electronic calculators also replaced the slide rule, around the late 1970s, which had been the instrument of choice for engineers for around 350 years!

Re:AI CapEx Is Eating the Economy by noncoml on Saturday July 19, 2025 @01:16PM (#44617341)
> Calculators didn't replace mathematicians, they replaced Computers

Imho you are underestimating the work of programmers if you compare them to “Computers”

Re:AI CapEx Is Eating the Economy by olddustytrail on Saturday July 19, 2025 @02:12PM (#44617885)
I didn't mention programmers at all in my comment.

In fact the first programmers were mainly women because they came from a Computer background.