"Pascal J. Bourguignon"
writes:
So he doesn't need a fully general solution.
OK, good point.
Not really.
I mean, ok, always implementing the most specific
solution to customers' request is a good way to
ensure job security.
But if your purpose is to change the world really,
and not just giving lip service to Silicon Valley
mantras, then you will implement the most general
solution so you don't have to do anything else when
the customer or another comes with a variant of
their problem, and so eventually we can leave
programs and robots work for us.
The purpose is always to change the world (or some
part of it, which is the same). But that robot thing
I don't want ever to happen because then what will *I*
do all days (and nights)? That would be
super-depressing!