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Democratization of software means that more people than ever can make things. This is absolutely the case with software today. We have kids creating games with

Democratization of software means that more people than ever can make things. This is absolutely the case with software today. We have kids creating games with drag-and-drop visual programming languages. One developer can get a worthy full-stack prototype in front of an investor in a month (or less!), and these stories are gaining steam. Soon we may have no-code solutions getting good enough to warrant broader adoption. No-code solutions are as black box as you can get, and it's also as anti-learning as you can get in terms of the underlying technology and its theoretical principles. But this is also an example of more people than ever making things.

pjc50 3y ago
Someone wrote "if people are using your tool to turn out a lot of half-baked garbage, then your tool is a huge success", which really reframed my view on these things. It was originally in the context of one of the "game maker" tools, but applies to any kind of simplification. A tool which only allows perfect solutions by perfect users is one that rejects a lot of work and prevents a huge number of projects from ever happening at all. Useful for safety-critical work, but not everything is safety-critical.