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  • I agree. But I mean, WordPress and SquareSpace already did that for about 98% of web traffic. It was a big part of the .Com Boom and Bust.

    But we keep coming up with new stuff to build web software for, and there’s still plenty of web developer jobs. And there’s still so so many many shit websites.

    Today’s AI can only remix, not do the new stuff. Maybe it’ll get good enough to tackle the novel new stuff, someday. I doubt I’ll live to see it, if it happens.

    The root of my crankiness is: If we’re about to no longer need developers, I should be seeing widespread websites whose search, cart and checkout actually work correctly every time.

    The snake oil salesmen are bragging that the era of carpentry has ended, from on top of a wooden stage that is falling to pieces with each step.

    I would say, it can only get better, but it can really go both ways from here.




  • Knowing it (well, appearing to, by regurgitating the average) better than many developers, pretty soon. A huge number of us know disturbingly little about how computers actually work. (Edit: Sorry, I’m being needlessly unkind to a bunch of us, since as Snoogums said, the current stuff doesn’t actually know anything at all, yet.)

    Knowing it better than top developers is a science fiction fantasy singularity daydream.

    And even Heinlein’s and Asimov’s post singularity fiction novels acknowledged that there would likely be roles for expert humans.









  • the very fact that there is a big urban/rural cultural divide is one of the things killing America.

    I agree wholeheartedly about the problem. But blind highest count vote on every topic is one of the big dividers between rural and urban folks.

    Rural folks will simply never have the numbers to influence outcomes in a pure vote count scenario. They’re aware of this, and it leads to animosity.

    Incidentally, I agree that financial decoupling would be ruinous for both, as well.

    The real solution is represtational seats that give everyone a voice - no matter how the voting zone is divided.

    I suspect that requires doing away with first-past-the-poll. The winner of that race will almost always be a city person, by raw numeric chance. That’s fine, city folks have some good ideas. The problem is when there’s no rural voice at the negotiation, at all.

    And I think any sensible person realizes we also have to put a stop to all gerrymandering.

    Also, we need to give seats to what remains of all of the first nations, while we’re at it.