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I Started Programming When I Was 7. I'm 50 Now and the Thing I Loved Has Changed (www.jamesdrandall.com)
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[โ€“] fubarx@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Wasn't "lo-code" a BIG thing a few years ago... that would destroy programming and make every PM a developer? Whatever happened to that? ๐Ÿค”

Edit: read the HN comments. If I ever go back to consulting, I'm 10x-ing my rate to work on cleaning up this slop. I'm not anti-AI coding and use it for my own projects, but if you just give it a prompt and walk away, you will be very sad later.

There's a BIG difference between prototypes and something others have to use. As the lo-code folks found out the hard way.

[โ€“] wer2@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago
  1. Programming language invented: Everyone can code now! Programming is dead!
  2. Cobol invented: Everyone can code now! Programming is dead!
  3. BASIC invented: Everyone can code now! Programming is dead!
  4. UML to Code/Executable UML: Everyone can code now! Programming is dead!
  5. Low code: Everyone can code now! Programming is dead!
  6. AI: Everyone can code now! Programming is dead!

Yep, any day now...

[โ€“] sping 2 points 1 week ago

Thing is, cleaning up slop, AI or otherwise, is miserable, slow, difficult work. It's why we get caught in rewrite traps.

[โ€“] Cryxtalix@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

Aren't professional tools using node-based compositing, which ends up being just as complicated as code in big projects? They'll do anything to hide the code, because code is scary, even if it's the same.