timtyler comments on Intelligence explosion in organizations, or why I’m not worried about the singularity

timtyler 28 Dec 2012 2:37 UTC
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Yes, but Git has a bottleneck: there are humans in the loop, and there are no plans to remove or significantly modify those humans

Most software companies plan to automate as much of their work as reasonably possible. So: it isn’t clear what you mean.
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- novalis 28 Dec 2012 2:40 UTC
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  Most software companies plan to automate as much of their work as reasonably possible. So: it isn’t clear what you mean.
  
  Are you saying that most software companies have code which modifies code (no, CPP, M4, and Spring don’t count), or code which modifies humans? Because that has not been my experience in the software industry.
  - timtyler 28 Dec 2012 12:06 UTC
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    Most software companies plan to automate as much of their work as reasonably possible. So: it isn’t clear what you mean.
    
    Are you saying that most software companies have code which modifies code [...]
    
    Examples of automation in the software industry are refactoring, compilation and unit testing. The entire industry involves getting machines to do things—so humans don’t have to.
    - novalis 28 Dec 2012 18:40 UTC
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      Automation is not the same as recursive self-modification. There’s no loop.
      - timtyler 28 Dec 2012 23:54 UTC
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        The context is GIT improving GIT—where “GIT” refers to all the humans and machines involved in making GIT.
        
        So: there’s your loop, right there.