Business System Consultation Center - Our Business System ColumnVol.158 2024.12.01 Takahashi Minoru

The best remedy for system aging: don't change the person in charge

Thank you for your interest and continued support.
This is Takahashi from the Marketing Plan Research Laboratory.


"Will human engineers eventually be replaced by machines?"
This is one of the debates that has been repeated for many years in the IT industry, but
human software engineers still hold an overwhelming advantage.


In the past, no matter what kind of machine was developed,
it has always been humans who have determined whether the values output by those machines were correct or not.
It is humans who detect machine errors, and it is humans who correct them.
This holds true for supercomputers as well as today’s AI; the fundamental reality remains the same,
and in my view, the dominance of "humans" shows no signs of waning.
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Especially when it comes to system implementation in small and medium-sized enterprises,
from proposal and design to development, deployment, and maintenance,
every concrete task is a business where “people” are the focus.
Our clients have their own clients, and everyone involved is human.
The ability to propose solutions that satisfy more people in a more balanced way
is, for the time being, a feat achievable only by humans, not machines.


The mechanical components—software and hardware—
account for at most 20 to 30 percent of the system.
The rest is “people.”
SE who fail to understand this
and persist in viewing them as if they were machines
were all destined to be phased out.
It doesn’t look like this situation will change anytime soon.


That's all, Thank you for reading.

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