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I reached quite the opposite conclusion: the purpose of software is to make a computer do work. Then again, I purposely refrain from writing end-user software and focus on backend automation. It is a deliberate choice.

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Do you keep your code human readable? Why?

Just playing devil's advocate:

So I or someone else can continue to effectively make the computer do work.

So it's a social act to keep the computer running.

For whom does the computer do work?

Other computers

I see you work in finance. Where the humans are just office decoration.

It may be computers all the way down, but at the bottom there is a human. Somewhere. Poor thing.

Unless it’s consumed by an AI. Which I don’t fully understand but am comfortable assuming that the AI might be able to ‘teach’ itself to consume an API.

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