There is a good section in the mythical man month about this.
What Brooks describes about AI taking over is that programmers have been
trying to do that for 30 years and all it turns out to be is a next
generation language. For example... CF is essentially writing the C++
code for you. If those folks figured out how to code with simple
English, i'd be very impressed.
Just remember the code has ALWAYS been the easiest part, regardless of
the language, it's the specifications for what the code does that's
hard. Getting the client to tell you what they want in a way that a
programmer can build it is the real challenge.
Steve
Stephen Fernandez wrote:
>
> why not cut out the programmers altogether...
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/18151.html
> (an article about ai writing code for you.)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 05 April 2001 04:17
> To: Fusebox
> Subject: Re: Fwd: extreme programming
>
> i want to take your 2 month development time down to 1-2 days (after the
> specification is complete). This would be done by having anywhere from
> 1-100 Fusecoders on the project. According to the mythical man month,
> this isn't possible because adding manpower to a project won't speed up
> development. Common sense tells me that it's because no has figured out
> how to linearly manage people.
>
> Think about this... If an olympic sprinter could run their sprinting
> speed for a mile the world record would be under 3 minutes.
>
> The reason this hasn't been done is that the human body can't pump
> enough blood and suck in enough air. BUT! If the human body was
> redesigned to solve those problems, the 3 minute mile could be possible.
>
> I'm about halfway through this book for the second time and I'm
> realizing that almost all of these problems Mr. Brooks has come across
> could potentially be solved with a handful of very sophisticated project
> management tools and a standardized methodology which we have already
> developed.
>
> Steve
>
> "Janty.com" wrote:
> >
> > Well, like I said .. adding a little exthreme programming along with a lot
> > of Fusebox, decreased our production time from 6 months of sloppy, barely
> > stitched together code, to 2 months of good solid stuff :) I think you
> > won't have any trouble disproving it, in the web dev comunity at least :)
> >
> > Todd
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Steve Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "Fusebox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 10:38 PM
> > Subject: Re: Fwd: extreme programming
> >
> > > The reason I've been studying extreme programming is my latest goal in
> > > life is to disprove the mythical man month. The mythical man month is a
> > > book that was written back in 1974 that explains that adding more
> > > manpower to a project does not linearly make the project go faster.
> > >
> > > I think with the combination of the concepts we've all come up with in
> > > this Fusebox community and the ideas the extreme programming community
> > > has come up with along with a handful of management tools, I think it
> > > could be possible to break free of the mythical man month.
> > >
> > > Steve Nelson
> > > Try my CFML code tester for free!
> > > http://www.secretagents.com/tools/stomp/
> > > (804) 825-6093
> >
> >
>
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