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To: CodeToad
Yeah, I'm not sweating it. Like the old joke goes, "It's not a question of whether or not machines think, but whether men do." From my experience, most software development doesn't even make it to CMM level 1, and in small companies especially, it's bedlam.

Good luck with an AI figuring all that out. The wetware can barely hang on.

The biggest threat to my job is getting the boot for telling those Large And In Charge that all their buzzword-rich happy-crap goes nowhere.

20 posted on 06/14/2023 6:27:13 AM PDT by Joe Brower ("Might we not live in a nobler dream than this?" -- John Ruskin)
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To: Joe Brower

“CMM level 1”

Sadly, most people have never heard of CMMI. It is why I do not accept college degrees within the past 20 years that is not a doctorate. Only until that level do students even study such things as CMMI.

I’ll take a guy that started his career decades ago and is self taught over any college degree today. Most of the best software engineers came from that era. Byte magazine and Steve Ciarcia’s Circuit Cellar were their references.

A guy like that would sail through today’s college programs. Students, today, don’t even study assembly language or know how a computer works at the electronics level. Logic gates and transistors are foreign to them. Even the system clock is nothing but a relative number to compare to other systems. The purpose of the system clock is unknown to them.

AI is nothing but averaging using very large datasets. There is no intelligence. It cannot think and create. It can produce nothing but what it is programmed to do and what is in the data it ingests. Using a simple math concept, that means it excludes and continues to exclude data until it, too, races to the bottom just like we humans are doing. AI is not the adding of information but the exclusion of it.

I call such things and people Knowledge Parasites. They take very little information to perform a function, add nothing to the body of knowledge, then proclaim themselves experts, while knowledge becomes lost.

As you said, liberalism is killing science and technology.

“None of us is as dumb as all of us.”


33 posted on 06/14/2023 7:39:15 AM PDT by CodeToad (No Arm up! They have!)
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