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skeledrewtoday at 2:13 AM3 repliesview on HN

Why else would one create software, if not to do something that a human does/did?


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moringtoday at 12:00 PM

To do things that a human could have done in theory, but did not do because it would have been too expensive.

matt_kantortoday at 3:19 AM

A few off the top of my head:

- Video games

- Medical device firmware

- Synthesizers

- Detailed universe-scale physics simulations

- Mars rover control software

- The Linux kernel

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nlytoday at 10:16 AM

To do new things no number of humans can do