alt Hacker NewsThe first thing this wave of automation seems likely to replace is automation itself.
For this reason it's hard for me to give much attention to comparisons to previous industrial revolutions. It would have looked way different if the first thing they built was a factory factory.
I will give this post some slack though, it was written in 2023.
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ForHackernews • yesterday at 9:06 PM
Replacing a deterministic factory that makes one type of car that always comes with seatbelts and airbags with a probabilistic vibestruder that churns out carlike objects that usually drive and typically have something that resembles an airbag.
> It would have looked way different if the first thing they built was a factory factory.
They couldn't, they didn't have enterprise Java back then.