Post #3261881
2024-01-14 16:24 UTC
Ok, what's next? Right, "sales automation". This is a bit of a mix of the first two cases. "Sales" is a little bit customer support, and a lot of manipulation to get people to buy things. Setting aside the possible minor customer-support improvements, I think we're mostly back at content generation with contempt for the reader.
One thing people have a hard time grasping is how much our economy spends on manipulating people to get money out of them. Advertising alone is hundreds of billions. Sales is surely at least that much. And then there's all the time lost to fending off the manipulation, plus the money lost when people fall for it. On the order of magnitude of the defense budget or all K-12 spending for sure.
So a bullshit machine might be a good fit, but is this a hole we really need to dig deeper?
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@williampietri@sfba.social 2024-01-14 16:35
And lastly, we have writing code. I've been writing code since I was 12. I started writing code for money at 18. And my dad started making his living as a programmer in the 1960s. And this all has a familiar ring to me. As a young teen, so maybe 1982, I went to my first tech conference. Walking the exhibit floor, I found somebody selling a system that promised to eliminate expensive programmers by letting the business people just write in plain English. It's an old dream, and one I've seen come up many times. Visual programming systems. Code wizards. Model-Driven Architecture. Probably many waves I've missed. 10/