Why Software Automation Is Hard — LessWrong
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Originally intended as a quick take, but got a bit longer, so why not turn it into a post. Just sharing my observations & assumptions here about the…
x Why Software Automation Is Hard — LessWrong Automation Technological Unemployment AI Frontpage 2026 Top Fifty: 13 % 114 Why Software Automation Is Hard by silentbob 6th Jun 2026 15 min read 20 114 Originally intended as a quick take, but got a bit longer, so why not turn it into a post. Just sharing my observations & assumptions here about the state of software automation. Happy to hear thoughts on where you think I'm off. I'm sure none of the thoughts in this post are totally original, many have been proposed in similar form elsewhere, and I 'm [1] far from the first person to speak of the
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