I sort of feel that way, that recent technological progress for the last 10-20 years has made life significantly more convenient for us as consumers, but not as

I sort of feel that way, that recent technological progress for the last 10-20 years has made life significantly more convenient for us as consumers, but not as producers. I’m not going to deny that we have better tools now like GitHub and Visual studio, but what’s the equivalent of two day shipping? There’s a few companies pushing the envelope, whether they know it or not. Notion for example allows people to build shareable webpages with their blocks; if their API ever gets released, you can imagine normal people using it as a CMS for blogs or websites. Another example is Levels.fyi using Google Sheets as a backend; Firebase is hard to use, but Word and Excel aren’t. It’s difficult to say where this trend will go, but end users shouldn’t be underestimated. We could probably teach more people python by asking them to manipulate numbers on a spreadsheet than with a black terminal and plain text editor.