My hunch is that software is pretty much going to end the way we think of it today.
Hardware, too, but that will take longer. If you think big enough, the idea of waiting for a new TV or phone or gaming system when you can just have your agent take your description, spec and order the hardware and have it fabbed for you in days ... is kind of quaint.
The broad societal disruption will be pretty devastating. But looking at software as the microcosm really lets you dream (/nightmare) big.
To me the question is not will we be able to get anything we want how we want it, but more who will have money to buy this?
Creativity is in the details, just asking for a paint app is boring. What exacty does that mean ? An app with a canvas and a few brushes and a colour palette is a paint app. So is Photoshop, but there is a difference. If everyone asks for a paint app or Photoshop, whats the point ?
It tacks effort and brains to think of new ideas and thats the problem, nost people dont know how to think it thru. THe same is true when thinking about security, most people dont have a clue what that means, they dont know if something is wrong or why or even how to ask for actual security in details, and thats not a good thing. Asking for "good security" is childish.
I think there's a big distinction between needing code - the machine abstraction for electrical logic gates - and code that will ever need to be read by a human.
Yeah we'll still need to know a sequence to flip bits in the right order, but it isn't code you'll recognize.
> You'll see the stock go up when Robotaxi and the Semi hit the market
Robotaxi is trying to enter an already crowded market and isn't exactly flourishing there. I'm still seeing every one in Austin with a human behind a steering wheel.
As for the Semi, yeah, if it actually comes to fruition. But like all things Elon ... let's wait and see.
May have pre-dated you by a bit. Perl definitely took foot not long after but the earliest cgi-bin days were dominated by C before people got tired of fighting compilation for web apps.
IIRC the spec itself says it was built for C applications.
This isn't unique to Cyprus. Deloitte Global is specifically structured this way:
"The member firms are primarily organised on an individual country or regional basis and each operates within the legal and regulatory framework of its particular jurisdiction(s). They are separate and independent firms that have come together to practise under a common brand and shared methodologies, client service standards and other professional protocols and guidelines."
I think they would have done this type of structuring anyway just because of what the parent comments have mentioned. But this is probably required by local laws just to be allowed to operate in the jurisdiction(s).
I'd be shocked if many EU nations required domestic incorporation just to do legal/regulatory/consulting business there. Plenty of other multinational corps operate under their primary company.
But it could be the case!
What I suspect happened with Deloitte specifically is they found a way to appear to expand globally without taking on a lot of the risk. More like brand franchising.
Which is all to say that I wouldn't doubt Deloitte Cyprus (or other branches) have shady stuff going on, but that this structure wasn't designed specifically for that purpose.
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