alt Hacker NewsPeople keep making these comparisons like they're equivalent. The whole point of AI is to replace the human factor. Horses being replaced by automobiles didn't remove the human factor. Humans continued to drive a different, non-organic vehicle for the following century.
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Don't worry, a lot of people laughed at Humans Need Not Apply came out in 2014. Way less of them are laughing now.
No, AI is meant to replaces the manual coding work. Without the human factor, you have a data center doing nothing. You still have to tell AI what to build. You still have to deal with reality affecting your business, with market changes and new features and translating asks into a product that serves multiple types of users.
Maybe we get rid of engineers and have really good product managers. Maybe we get rid of product managers and have really good product engineers. But we don't get rid of humans. There is a reason no (successful) company ever said "we finished the app, now fire all the engineers and collect money forever."
Software is never finished, only abandoned as the world passes it by.
In this case it's an excellent comparison. Many in transportation just liked the transportation aspect, and the switch from horse to automobile didn't matter. Some people were just there for the horses, and to them it did matter.