Post #3261882
2024-01-14 16:35 UTC
And lastly, we have writing code.
I've been writing code since I was 12. I started writing code for money at 18. And my dad started making his living as a programmer in the 1960s. And this all has a familiar ring to me.
As a young teen, so maybe 1982, I went to my first tech conference. Walking the exhibit floor, I found somebody selling a system that promised to eliminate expensive programmers by letting the business people just write in plain English.
It's an old dream, and one I've seen come up many times. Visual programming systems. Code wizards. Model-Driven Architecture. Probably many waves I've missed.
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@williampietri@sfba.social 2024-01-14 16:41
Of course, we also have the dream appearing regularly in science fiction. HAL 9000 is from 1968, and was set in 2001. You can just tell the computer what to do, and off it goes, understanding your needs. I should say that this is a lovely dream. And it can be a great inspiration as we get machines and computers to do the drudgery. But as with all powerful dreams, we have to be careful to be realistic. 11/
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@puercomal@sfba.social 2024-01-14 20:40
@williampietri@sfba.social very thorough takedown! I've taken some stabs at the code development part as well (http://monkeynoodle.org/2023/05/07/get-the-developer-out-of-the-way/) but I like your addressing of customer support as failure demand