undefined | Better HN

0 pointsdonkeyd3y ago0 comments

> This 10x productivity absense of a 10x expansion of programming industry (which is very unlikely)

I think I disagree. If software then becomes 10x cheaper, a lot of use cases that used to be too expensive to build now becomes affordable. At my own job, I think we could easily do 10x the business, because our customers need tons of tooling (for example for energy transition) but we don't have the people (among other problems).

0 comments

2 comments · 1 top-level

margorczynski3y ago· 1 in thread

What if those use-cases disappear also because they were made for humans? Will there really be a need for spreadsheets and spreadsheet plugins when all that works is done by an AI with a little help of some headless tool or scripting language?

chobeat3y ago

if we look at the last 30 years: yes. The IT industry doesn't seem to be developing towards anything that resembles efficiency or minimization of work. For every useless technology, a caste of users and a caste of experts are created in order to be able to absorb the information that can be generated.

The information society is a machine maximizing information exchange, something that only incidentally implies increasing profit or increasing productivity.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse