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From: The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>
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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?

-- 
Cheers, Bev
   "Don't you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the
    intelligence? There's one marked "brightness", but it
    doesn't work."                               -- Gallagher