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mirsadmtoday at 7:56 AM1 replyview on HN

You can apply this same argument to everything. Code is deterministic but what is being made is often not because people don't know what they want to make. Society can choose just to make everything boring and deterministic so that computers can do everything.


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CobrastanJorjitoday at 8:16 AM

I agree that you can apply this same argument to everything. And it's still a correct argument.

Programmers will have jobs for a long time, and our most valuable skill will be figuring out what the heck management wants us to make.