Grady Booch: Automation Has Value, but Struggle Itself Makes Us Human
Grady_Booch · x · 2026-10-04
Software engineering luminary Grady Booch argues that while automating tedious, repetitive and dangerous tasks is genuinely valuable, we shouldn't forget the value of engaging one's own mind and body to discover, understand, create — and even struggle and overcome. Those activities, he writes, are part of what make us human, give life meaning, and constitute the simple joy of being alive.
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