Subj : Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
To   : tenser
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Tue Jan 09 2024 06:10:00

-=> tenser wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 te> Hey, with IBM pushing AI to translate those piles of
 te> dusty COBOL into Java, maybe you'd never need it!

I don't know, someone needs to run the AI, right? At least for the time
being...

My son is about to graduate with a marketing communications degree. I
don't think AI is going to render him unemployable, I think the jobs are
going to change. There won't be tons of human content creators, rather a
handful of people who can effectively leverage AI to create content.

Ditto for coding. If one person managing a LLM can replace a small team,
people can focus on program logic and let the LLM do the heavy lifting -
the same way that computers allowed mathmeticians to stop doing the
repetitive calculations and focus on the big picture.



.... Always the first steps
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