I’ve been designing for the oncoming Singularity. And this silliness needs to end.
For all problems that I believe to be solvable by software, from the lowest level of hardware/software interaction to the highest level of user interface abstraction, it all had to fit into the confines of The One True System.
The schemas would be flawless, the interface pixel perfect.
I would write, the One True System, supposedly.
Well, I have a bit of confession to make.
My name is Josh Kim, and I am an over-designer.
The funny thing is, the path towards Singularity has already begun. The great developers are writing themselves out of their own jobs, in a way, and creating even newer jobs in the process, jobs that didn’t exist even a decade ago.
Instead of freaking out about how I’m writing an imperfect system, I am excited to have a say in the future, one line at a time. After all, nothing’s perfect.
And actually, born out of this human imperfection is probably how we’re going to end up with the Singularity, most likely some test case unforeseen and left uncovered.
Might as well I start the downfall of humanity and welcome the sentient overlords, one line of code at a time.