[LINK] New Ford GT employs 10 million lines of code ???

[Chris Johnson]

I agree with Jan's "someone in IT" that the future indications are that
"coding" is going to be a dead-end job. And anyone trying to code 8
million lines of code is - hopelessly optimistic. "Coding" is what is
used as an introduction to computational thinking, hence the basis of
software systems development, engineering... coding alone does not scale
up to these .
The job is not "coding" but "software design and development" that is
going to be even more in demand than it is now.

Some evidence: PwC report A Smart Move
<http://pwc.docalytics.com/v/a-smart-move-pwc-stem-report-april-2015>
 on STEM education, jobs and the future, section on Jobs at Risk from 
computerisation dervied from US Bureau of Labor and a University of
Oxford report)
And if the reported "real challenge" is getting all the code sensors to
talk to each other and not crash the whole system when one breaks - then
the system or the report is rubbish. This problem is solved.
(You could loosely say that I am also "in IT", but more informatively, I
am in the discipline of computing.)

JanW wrote:
> Thanks Stephen
> Some 'person' on Twitter on the #budgetreply thread just said coding was a deadend job. I sent him this link. And he says he's "in IT". That's a worry!
> Jan
>
> At 09:58 PM 14/05/2015, Stephen Loosley wrote:
>
>> >http://www.msn.com/en-au/motoring/reviews/new-ford-gt-operating-system-has-more-lines-of-code-than-a-boeing-787-dreamliner/
>> >
>> >
>> >Speaking with the media at a Ford GT forum in Detroit, chief engineer Jamal Hameedi revealed the new Ford GT is a vastly different car than its 2005 predecessor.
>> >
>> >While ABS was the most high-tech system of the 2005 Ford GT, the new GT employees over 50 different sensors feeding 28 microprocessors and refreshed every eight milliseconds.
>> >
>> >There are six communication area networks which, via 3000 different signals, generate 300MB of data per second (over 100GB of data per hour).
>> >
>> >Hameedi claims the new GT employs 10 million lines of ???mission critical??? software code, three million more than the new Boeing 787 dreamliner and eight million more than an F22 fighter jet - though one could argue that more code isn???t necessarily a good thing.

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