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comment by HeroicGomez
HeroicGomez  ·  1872 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Tech Is Splitting the U.S. Work Force in Two

Coded, automated tasks have fundamental gaps in their execution. They will always be limited by the fundamental limits of the code powering them.

A lot of my work addresses gaps created by systems that were supposed to automate everything and solve problems.

Tech has a fundamental arrogance towards what it does, mostly because people don't like to pay attention the details or the consequences of ignoring them.





user-inactivated  ·  1872 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Being a little bit arrogant is necessary. We used to joke about being able to replace managers with very small perl scripts, but most of what we do really is looking at the things people do under the assumption we can figure out the rules for the games they're playing and write programs to play them instead. That's fundamentally arrogant, but it works pretty well when it works. If we were modest a computer would still be an office worker with a ream of scratch paper. What we need is for everyone, including us, to understand that and take us with a few shakers of salt.

kleinbl00  ·  1870 days ago  ·  link  ·  

95% of most jobs can be done by 95% of people. It's that last 5% of the time that you need expertise.

The issue is that efficiency experts will look at that statistic and determine you can have 95% proficiency by offering expertise early retirement... without considering that takeoffs and landings are a small percentage of an aircraft's flight time.