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I'm a firm believer in empowering end user automation. The atrocities that folks cobble together with the Excels of the world are a marvel, and more power to th
by whartung 4y ago
I'm a firm believer in empowering end user automation. The atrocities that folks cobble together with the Excels of the world are a marvel, and more power to them.
But in the end, we all talk about leaky abstractions, and the stark horror is that the fact that all of these wonders run on a computer, the worlds leakiest abstraction, the worlds most stubborn, pig headed, cantankerous contraption out there.
And all the lipstick in the world can't hide it.
- enos_feedler 4y agoI think it goes beyond automation and into customization. Giving end users the power to "program the program" just makes it possible to make the thing do what they want in a way that it wasn't set out to do. Without having to pay/find/wait for a developer to do it. Sometimes it's about automation. Sometimes it isn't.