The rise of type inference and its impact on language syntax:
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On the tendency for short term software design decisions to impact thousands of people for years:
Automation does not seem to have much of an impact: people are rarely forced to change industry, companies are not investing heavily in AI, and productivity growth is slow: https://www.wired.com/2017/08/robots-will-not-take-your-job/
An ARM engineer has written an interesting critique of instruction and encoding choices in RISC-V, and how those decisions can impact implementations:
