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Ford rehires human engineers after AI fails to match quality checks (www.bbc.com)

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[–] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Hope they played it right. I knew someone who worked on proprietary factory machines and he always refused to train anyone else on them and got paid stupid amounts to service them.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I know an engineer that does very well because he services systems originally programmed in Fortran.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

i mean my [very old computer language] expertise gets me some business every now and then, but it's usually really old POS terminals.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Those "POS" terminals can't be hacked, worked fine for 40 years, and paying a guy to maintain them is far cheaper than a modern system anyone can hack and will get bricked with a software update.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

oh sorry. Point of Sale, not Piece of Shit.

I'm pretty sure they can be hacked, i'm just not sure anyone would think it was worth it.

i don't know what their maintenance fees are, but the enrollment fees at square are cheaper than what i charge for fucking around with [old programming language].

the difference is my clients' system is custom to them. i just don't know why they haven't switched.

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What... Of Fortran that old already?

Damn, I am that old already....

[–] Ostrakon@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The idea that Fortran is old is old at this point.

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 1 points 3 weeks ago

Does that make it new or old squared?