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<h1 style="text-align: center;">programming wont be automated, or it already has been</h1>
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<li>] by mortoray&nbsp;@ mortoray.com - OP surmises about the role of AI in the feild of programming. Concludes that its unlikely machines will take over the job of programming but their are many areas in programming where they could improve efficiencies resulting in higher quality software.</li>
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<li><strong>] READ THE FULL ARTICLE</strong></li>
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<li>]&nbsp;<a href="https://mortoray.com/2017/03/22/programming-wont-be-automated-or-it-already-has-been/" target="_blank">https://mortoray.com/2017/03/22/programming-wont-be-automated-or-it-already-has-been/</a></li>
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<h2>[WHEN]</h2>
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<li>] 2017-03-25</li>
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<p>I&rsquo;m afraid of a robot taking my job. I don&rsquo;t care about the job part much, I&rsquo;m afraid of the actual robot. To replace my job it&rsquo;d need to exhibit human level intelligence. That&rsquo;s scary. Before that happens though, maybe some of its infantile, and less scary, brethren can make my job a bit easier.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>It&rsquo;s easy to say automation will replace jobs</strong>. But it&rsquo;s <strong>not some magic wand that can just replace any job. It&rsquo;s highly industry specific.</strong> In manufacturing automation means converting some raw materials, or baseline supplies, into a finished product with a bunch of moving machines sticking stuff together. In Logistics it means fulfilling, loading, and delivering that product to a customer with self-driving vehicles.</p>
<p>It&rsquo;s easy to understand what <strong>automation. It&rsquo;s replacing a very tangible process with a machine.</strong> Sure, we might keep a few humans around to babysit the machines, or just for decoration, but it&rsquo;s the machines doing the bulk of the work.</p>
<p><strong>A compiler takes this and produces something the machine can understand. It may not be an industrial looking robot, but it&rsquo;s certainly a machine that transforms from A to B.</strong></p>
<p>As our languages become more abstract and more expressive the role of this machine becomes ever more important. <strong>Throw in some build scripts, automated tests, push-button deployment and we have a huge amount of work not being done by a human.</strong></p>
<p>I&rsquo;m not afraid of a compiler. Indeed, I&rsquo;d love that it becomes more intelligent.<strong> I dream of a future where I get sensible error messages.</strong></p>
<p><strong>To be new we&rsquo;d need to allow the user to make abstract requests,</strong> like &ldquo;update the date in my business documents&rdquo;, or &ldquo;cross reference my bank statements with the expenses and report on discrepancies&rdquo;. Moreso, if the goal is to produce reusable applications, we need this to be even more abstract: &ldquo;Create a plugin that downloads bank statements, compares to the expense statements, and produces a standard report&rdquo;.</p>
<p>This is <strong>the crux of programming, taking vague, abstract, and often confusing requirements and creating something usable.</strong> We need to navigate human understanding as well as a sea of technical options. Writing code is about taking those ideas and making them concrete, and useful.</p>
<p><strong>This is not something AI is anywhere close to being able to do.</strong> Even us human programmers struggle to do this at times.&nbsp;</p>
<p>There&rsquo;s also a less tangible role for automation. In law it could mean using a natural language understanding, case-law searching, agent. In medicine it&rsquo;s a research collation and symptom matching engine. These tools both replace some human effort, but also assist in making better decisions.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Given the volumes of issues most projects have, a significant increase in productivity won&rsquo;t be putting any teams out of work. It&rsquo;ll just result in higher quality software.</p>
<p>To completely remove programmers from the equation would require essentially a human level artificial intelligence. And if I start seeing near sentient robots walking around, my first thought is certainly not going to be, &ldquo;oh no, it&rsquo;s going to take my job!&rdquo;</p>
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<h2>[REFERENCE]</h2>
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<li>] SRC = best-of-HN-2017-03-22, comments</li>
<li>] # 7177 - <a href="/view/task?id=7177" target="_blank">CREATE-article# 5667</a> -&nbsp;</li>
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