Remember when UML meant we didn't need humans writing code anymore?
@pikesley I remember being taught about CASE tools at university and thinking “well, where’s the fun in this…”
@pikesley As I recall, when they taught us about UML at university they were a bit more explicit about how the "trivial" work of turning the square boxes into code could be outsourced to people in India. Now, it's people in lower income countries who are training LLMs and filtering out the visual horrors at their own psychological cost, and so the wheel turns.
The job of drawing the little boxes and joining them together will be obsolete in 12-18 months
@pikesley I'm so old I can remember the adverts for this when I was just starting to study CS.
@pikesley it’s almost like the hard part has never been writing the code.
@pikesley yeah that's fine though modern life has made me inhuman
@pikesley considering how few favours the software development industry has done itself the last two decades, I'm not surprised people are reaching for AI as this huge optimisation tool.
Still depressing as fuck, though
@pikesley delegation
"optimising for delegation" ok you're gonna have to be more specific here