• frododouchebaggins@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Headline should read:

    “Software took my job, literally”

    10 years ago I replaced an entire department with custom software that automated their jobs. The department did manual data entry into an ERP system, feeding it the manufacturing data from the previous day. We did not automate it to be evil, we did it because humans make lots of mistakes. If you ask the human, they definitely typed it correctly and it there is a problem it’s a computer “bug”.

    Miraculously the automated system has made exactly 0 typing errors in 10 years.