From: lynnmcguire5@gmail.com   
      
   On 8/5/2025 8:48 PM, John McCue wrote:   
   > Followups trimmed to: comp.lang.fortran   
   >   
   > In comp.lang.fortran Lynn McGuire  wrote:   
   >> “A sobering, short-term warning about artificial intelligence and   
   >> white-collar jobs”   
   >>   
   >> https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/08/a-sobering-s   
   ort-term-warning-about.html   
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   >    
   >>   
   >> I just do not see it for software developers of anything complicated.   
   >> I’ve got 1.4 million lines of Fortran and C++ that I am dragging   
   >> around the place.  I cannot imagine an AI figuring it out.   
   >   
   > I agree with this, & do not forget COBOL :)  Github's   
   > CEO came out with something similar as what Bayou said   
   > yesterday I think.  Remember, almost all CEOs moved up   
   > through marketing or finance.  They have do idea what   
   > development is.   
   >   
   > I think these CEOs are in a dreamworld about AI.  I have   
   > been programming for multiple decades and have seen many   
   > iterations of that dream.  All it did was create more jobs   
   > for developers and raised their pay.  I expect nothing   
   > different from AI.   
   >   
   >>   
   >> Lynn   
      
   I want to forget Cobol.  I tried to learn Cobol back in the 1970s.   
   Never again.   
      
   Lynn   
      
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