Good DRM

If I’m reading this right, he’s saying exactly what my friends and I have
been talking about for a couple of years now. Essentially, before too long,
the idea is going to be what’s valuable — not the ability to
implement it.

This is a major development in any field, really, and it certainly is in
information technology. What it means is that like 75% of the IT work force
is going to made obsolete. I’m making up those numbers, obviously, but it’ll
be a lot.

Think about how many IT workers you know. How many are
creating things vs. implementing them and doing common, repetitive
tasks. Being in information security I am in the upper crust of standard IT
workers, but the vast majority of my time is still spent implementing and
doing common things. This will all be going away before too long, though.

The only thing that’s going to be useful, really, is hacking.
Anything other than hacking is simply implementation of said creativity, and
that’s going to get increasingly easy as languages improve and/or AI becomes
more powerful.

As AI does get more…intelligent, it’ll essentially be every hacker’s
familiar
— sitting there ready to help implement whatever cool idea the hacker comes
up with. Either that or the languages/IDEs will be so advanced (using AI, no
doubt) that ideas will be written (spoken?) by the creator in pseudo-code,
at which point the program itself will do the work necessary to make the
idea usable to a computer.

Anyway, more ramblings from me. Let me know what you guys think…