[hhas01]

Common mistake, trying to replace humans with machines. Typical of penny-pinching bean counters and talentless middle-management chair warmers. But I don’t think Apple has ever understood automation (as any 20-year AppleScript veteran can tell you), so I’m not surprised Cook’s crew has failed to capitalize.

Complex automation works best when placed in the hands of skilled humans, as an amplifier of human ability. Let them use the machines to accelerate all their mundane repetitive crap, while retaining the human ability to make reasoned decisions and handle corner cases and errors intelligently.

But perhaps a more logical place to start is by automating away the penny-pinching bean counters’ and talentless middle-management chair warmers’ jobs? Dog knows they’re reliably useless at it themselves.

[agustif]

> But perhaps a more logical place to start is by automating away the penny-pinching bean counters’ and talentless middle-management chair warmers’ jobs?

I readed this on HN and your comment made me remember it. https://marshallbrain.com/manna1

[hhas01]

Heh. Yeah, I did have Brain’s speculation in mind too, but right now I think we can reasonably file its long implications under “let’s deal with that new problem when we get to it”, as right now we aren’t even close to solving the problem we’ve already got.

Personally I see successful high-level automation as much more meritocratic, in that it both serves and is directed by the same individuals: the users themselves. The worst that can happen there is that you automate yourself out of your existing job; but if you can’t think of how to parlay that win into your next then your imagination picked a funny time to fail on you now.

[Dylan16807]

Assembly is mundane repetitive crap.