Dilbert beat you to it:
replyhttps://english.stackexchange.com/questions/488178/what-does...
The non-programmer decomposition of that joke was painful to read.
replyParticularly from those outside the domain who criticised it as a 'not a very good joke' because they didn't understand it, which I think summarises the entitled mindset of many people these days.
I thought we were all doing that already?
replyJesus, dude. There are managers reading this.
replyWhat do you think they do all day?
replyThe larger pattern is not unique to writing code. Think of it next time a reorg comes, or some random thing gets "improved" in the name of "efficiency" only management seems to see.
Take them out of the loop.
replyUnless they are not human.
I’m guessing you wouldn’t really rather be managed by a bot..,
reply>_<
replyThe idea is to take the human out of the loop.
reply > But in 30 days we could put in electronic relays. Get the men out of the loop.
> Gentlemen...
> I wouldn't trust this overgrown pile of microchips further than I could throw it. I don't know if
> you wanna trust the safety of our country to some... silicon diode...Meanwhile, experienced humans learned to succeed by not overachieving every second of the day to keep a steady flow of work going. Then a junior rolls up who wants to kill themselves to climb the ladder - but, problem solved, sub the AI in for the juniors to protect the seniors.
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