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Duncan Lock

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This feels like it's a step on the way to automating many millions of office admin jobs - which are often "copy and paste stuff from one computer system to another, sometimes editing it". Sobering thinking of how many people are potentially affected by this stuff.

23 October at 13:22 | Wall-to-wall | Open on cosocial.ca
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Simon Willison

@duncanlock a few months ago I encountered a fire station chief who had just spent spent two days manually copying and pasting email addresses from one CRM system to another

23 October at 13:35 | Open on fedi.simonwillison.net
Simon Willison

@duncanlock I feel like I've been automating away those jobs my entire career already - when we started work on the CMS that became Django one of our goals was to dramatically reduce the amount of copy-and-paste manual work that went into turning the newspaper into a website so that our web editors could spend their time on other, more valuable activities

23 October at 15:15 | Open on fedi.simonwillison.net
Duncan Lock

@simon
As a fellow software developer, I know what you mean - but maybe this feels like a step change in speed and scale, which would make it harder for people to adapt to? A surprising amount of jobs are _just_ glueing systems together with human glue.

23 October at 20:36 | Open on cosocial.ca
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