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The Robots That Will Put Coders Out of Work

Posted by timothy on from the uber-drivers-will-be-replaced-by-robots-oh-wait dept.

snydeq writes Researchers warn that a glut of code is coming that will depress wages and turn coders into Uber drivers, InfoWorld reports. "The researchers — Boston University's Seth Benzell, Laurence Kotlikoff, and Guillermo LaGarda, and Columbia University's Jeffrey Sachs — aren't predicting some silly, Terminator-like robot apocalypse. What they are saying is that our economy is entering a new type of boom-and-bust cycle that accelerates the production of new products and new code so rapidly that supply outstrips demand. The solution to that shortage will be to figure out how not to need those hard-to-find human experts. In fact, it's already happening in some areas."

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  1. But CNN Said... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    This time was different :(

    1. Re:But CNN Said... by AchilleTalon · · Score: 1, Funny

      Economics isn't pseudoscience. Would you say sociology, psychology,etc are not science just because your narrow definition of science is exact science, those fields like physics, chemistry and mathematics which are leading to one single unambiguous answer? As soon as humans are involved the complexity is many magnitudes of order higher than the most complex physics theory, hence the results cannot lead to a single and well defined answer. Economics is about humans and humans' behavior. Even meteorology and climatology which are base on science first principles and formalized mathematics models are failing to predict the future and you are not rejecting them as scientific fields. Why do you expect a science dealing with a much more complex organism than fluid dynamics to lead to exact results?

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      Achille Talon
      Hop!
    2. Re:But CNN Said... by gargleblast · · Score: 4, Funny

      Even meteorology and climatology ... are failing to predict the future ...

      I bet you die in a thunderstorm.

  2. New jobs will be created. by Kaenneth · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, someone will have to write the detailed specification, and list of instructions for the system to use to know what the humans want it to code. We could call that person a 'Programmerator' and the system a 'Compileatron'.

  3. HA! by retech · · Score: 4, Funny

    Jokes one them. Uber's robot cares are going to put Uber drivers out of business.