The Orchestra Conductor, The Senior Programmer, and AI • [Club]

A short opinion post with some thoughts on the changing programming landscape

I spent a few years learning to play the piano when I was a child. It was always clear I would never be a concert pianist. Or a pianist of any description. This is to say that I don’t know much about music. I still struggle to understand why an orchestra needs a conductor–don’t the musicians all have the score that they can play nearly perfectly?

And many people who comment about programming and AI know as much about programming as I know about music…and probably even less about AI.

But the orchestra conductor analogy seems a good one. Let me explore it further.