Reply to: Will a robot take your job?

[Avalonia]

For the love of God take my job you little tin b@stard

[expat]

I've seen them used in a number of places. Where they're sold as "you don't need developers anymore", they fail, because you still need to understand how to program to use the tool effectively. Where they're sold as tools to speed up developments, then they're rather more useful. A decent IDE is essentially a CASE tool.

Yeah, I remember RPG as the language that would eliminate programmers. I made quite a good living out of it in the 70s and 80s.

[NotAllThere]

They were teaching the use of CASE tools when I was at Uni, I've never actually seen them used in anger since.

I've seen them used in a number of places. Where they're sold as "you don't need developers anymore", they fail, because you still need to understand how to program to use the tool effectively. Where they're sold as tools to speed up developments, then they're rather more useful. A decent IDE is essentially a CASE tool.

[Zero Liability]

Analysis can't be automated, code monkey work that has already been offshored is rather easier to automate

Indeed. There's actually quite a few IT/software jobs in there that have a low susceptibility to it, which make active use of coding skills, so I guess it's just a matter of how diverse your overall skillset is/can be.

[eek]

Just realised that study was contained in the main article. It's been going around for quite some time now. Deloitte also did a piece on this. Funnily enough, in terms of the referenced Oxford study, computer systems analysts rank very low with regard to susceptibility to automation.

Analysis can't be automated, code monkey work that has already been offshored is rather easier to automate

[Zero Liability]

Just realised that study was contained in the main article. It's been going around for quite some time now. Deloitte also did a piece on this. Funnily enough, in terms of the referenced Oxford study, computer systems analysts rank very low with regard to susceptibility to automation.

[greenlake]

Will a robot take your job?

Too late....

[darmstadt]

For tape monkeys it already has, we had one of these to replace ours:

[cojak]

<Yorkshire>
When I say Specification, it was really just a set of vague promises made by the Sales team.
</Yorkshire>

Ah yes, there'll always be a job for us while there's salesmen's commission.

[DaveB]

Specification?

Luxury!

<Yorkshire>
When I say Specification, it was really just a set of vague promises made by the Sales team.
</Yorkshire>

[VectraMan]

When computers can produce working, useful programs from a specification written on the back of a fag packet with a marker pen... then I'll worry.

Specification?

Luxury!

[DaveB]

They were teaching the use of CASE tools when I was at Uni, I've never actually seen them used in anger since.

[eek]

When computers can produce working, useful programs from a specification written on the back of a fag packet with a marker pen... then I'll worry.

It may and eventually will do the bits you used to off shore but you will still need to take the fag packet and convert it into a specification others can develop from...

[NotAllThere]

When computers can produce working, useful programs from a specification written on the back of a fag packet with a marker pen... then I'll worry.

[MarillionFan]

Well it apears maybe



Some of the coders on current RIP project could be replace by randomise()

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