Are machines going to replace programmers?
I started doing some home baking recently. It started, like with a lot of other people, during the pandemic lockdown period when I got tired of buying the same bread from the supermarket every day. In all honesty, my bakes are passable, not very pretty but they please the family, which is good enough for me. Yesterday I stumbled on a YouTube video on how a factory makes bread in synchronised perfection and it broke a bit of my heart. All the hard work kneading dough amounts to nothing compared to spinning motors tumbling through a mechanised giant bucket. As I watch rows and rows of dough rising in unison spirals up the proofing carousel then slowly rolling into a constantly humming monstrous oven to become marching loaves of bread, something died in me. When the loaves zipped themselves into sealed bags and dumped themselves into packing boxes, I tell myself that they don't have the same craftsmanship (in my mind) as someone who is making bread with love, for his family. But deep inside me, I understand that if bread depended on human bakers only, it would be a whole lot more expensive, a lot more people would go hungry.
Jul-21-2020, 18:20:15 GMT
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