• theherk@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    People lost their abilities to use slide rules too, to write assemblers, etc. The big companies monopolizing the tech are bad, but the tech is here to stay.

    • mabeledo@lemmy.world
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      20 hours ago

      Yet the need for skills remained.

      What kind of skills are needed to ask a non deterministic machine to code things one cannot understand in the first place?

      • theherk@lemmy.world
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        19 hours ago

        Of course skills are still needed. All I’m saying is skills atrophy overtime as one industry is supplanted by another all the way back to the birth of agrarian society.

    • chunes@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      This.

      For some reason they hate is really strong this time around but it’s the exact same thing.