Context, systems can’t do without it

The past eight months have been interesting in our world of computer science and software engineering. For all of us in general, but also for the teams I’m working with. Recently, I wrote a bit about Unified Namespaces for industrial automation, which is something we’re spending a lot of time and effort on, but in the background, there are also the seemingly revolutionary developments in the world of artificial intelligence. Suddenly, everybody seems to be on top of data again, and AI is going to do all the impossible stuff with it that we’ve been unable to do for years.

So, are we going to be out of a job soon? Or are we going to be the front-runners making it happen? For the time being, we’re neither because there’s no need. Artificial intelligence has already been around for decades and although developments have been speeding up a lot in recent years, there’s not much to be afraid of as far as I’m concerned. On the contrary.