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The goal is to deskill the labor of these workers. If there is a threat of a replacement which can bypass the cost of creating a new skilled worker, then the workers lose their bargaining power. It doesn't matter if the threat is a bluff so long as it is believed enough to give leverage.

We surveyed attendees ahead of the symposium. One of our questions was: if this doesn’t happen in the next ~10 years, what will the primary reason be? The number one reason cited was lack of funding, followed by technical feasibility. Why hasn’t this field attracted sufficient funding, especially given the enormous societal burden?

Isn't a projected problem with technical feasibility an explanation for lack of funding?

A more generous way to say this is that the code is more readable, which is in fact important in a growing codebase.

I do non-standard touch typing, just naturally learned from typing over the years. I mostly only use 3 fingers on each hand, but I'm not hunting for the keys, I know where they are. I feel like I do make more typos than a properly trained typist but I'm certainly not spending any attention on the typing.

Extending this metaphor, I would then want to own my two bedroom home, and take a vacation to the rented mansion.

Is there a well trodden way to serve most of your everyday traffic out of your own datacenter, but scale out to cloud infra when traffic peaks?