When we sit back and contemplate the replacement of "workers" by "automation", programmers are in a smugly safe position. After all we are the people doing the automation. We are coming for THEIR jobs. But, surprise, surprise – AI is coming for US! We think programming is hard and creative and … well an achievement of the human mind so grand that we are special. There is a certain amount of truth in this, but the sad fact is that there is a very large portion of programming endeavor that is as repetitive and unthinking as working on a […]
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