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Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!usenet.goja.nl.eu.org!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail From: arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Emigration from Usenet [was: Re: PTD was the most-respected of the AUE regulars ...] References: <uvej5e$34pfl$8@dont-email.me> <toolmakers-20240806145434@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de> <v8ue8n$1uv83$1@dont-email.me> <wwvfrrgrci1.fsf@LkoBDZeT.terraraq.uk> Organization: Arnold Robbins X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Originator: arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins) Date: 07 Aug 2024 15:04:21 GMT Lines: 30 Message-ID: <66b38cf5$0$706$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: e1d3ad53.news.sunsite.dk X-Trace: 1723043061 news.sunsite.dk 706 arnold@skeeve.com/147.236.215.54:38972 X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Bytes: 2341 In article <wwvfrrgrci1.fsf@LkoBDZeT.terraraq.uk>, Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote: >The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> writes: >> On 8/6/24 6:55 AM, Stefan Ram wrote: >>> The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> wrote or quoted: >>>>What happens when there are no more toolmakers? >>> Well, if by "toolmakers" you mean those devs cranking out text >>> editors, search engines, or AI chatbots: We're swimming in them these >>> days, more than ever before in human history! So I'd say: I'll cross >>> that bridge when I come to it, if we ever actually run low on those >>> folks. (Sure, some tech fields are hurting for talent, but that's >>> probably not because of the new AI chatbots hitting the scene.) >> >> I mean people who have serious work to do and know how to make a >> computer do it for them. REAL experts. If there are only people who >> know how to use the tools already provided for them, who will make NEW >> tools? > >Obviously nobody. But it’s a hypothetical situation which isn’t about to >happen. Don't be sure. A CS professor I know told me this last week: I'm one of the very few that teach Systems. It amazes me that our PhD students almost all in AI have never heard of a program counter. Scary times. I'm glad I retire from software development in a few years. -- Aharon (Arnold) Robbins arnold AT skeeve DOT com