automation

“Work that is monotonous and routine should be automated because every human being has a right to use their creativity in their job.”

“Pursuing automation tends to be kind of a race to the bottom in many ways. It sort of lowers everybody's cost, but it also lowers everybody's margins, and everybody ends up doing kind of similar, not so innovative things”

“So I would say, first of all, it's kind of an unnecessary link and it's sort of a damaging way of thinking about things.”

“For instance, in scientific inquiry, you know, you're always looking for the thing that hasn't yet been discovered, and you're kind of going into narrower and narrower and narrower niches, and that is a very viable strategy for human work, because only after t…”

“I'm not too concerned about that. I'm pretty confident that we'll have ways in which people can earn livings.”

“Maybe we took a one decade pause in automation, and maybe now that wages have risen so much in China and things like that, maybe now we're going to get back to the task of automation.”

“And this is, like, literally the biggest lesson from Microsoft Clippy, which was, like, automatic features and automation are all cool, except they kind of have to be right literally all of the time.”

“But if you have systems where a lot of the recovery of failures is actually built in, and the level of automation is really high, you actually don't need these DBAs anymore sitting around and screwing stuff up.”

“Automation will change the structure of work, meaning what we do, how we do it, and that in turn is going to end up needing new tools. And that eventually is going to change how the market works, who wins, who loses, and why.”

“The industries that have higher levels of automation also, also grow faster.”

“The assumption in our field forever has been that we're, we automate the low value tasks first you know, like cleaning toilets. And then later we automate, you know, graphic design or something. And it turns out it's like the other way around, right?”

“Despite the headlines, despite how much demand there is in this market, and how much software's changed over the last few years, it's so far away from being automated. It's so inefficient. Building software in a professional setting, especially with, you know,…”