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I think code / coding is overrated. Coding is debt. If we look at math / category theory we have functorial semantics, which means semantics (code) is auto-gen
by csbartus 3y ago
I think code / coding is overrated. Coding is debt.
If we look at math / category theory we have functorial semantics, which means semantics (code) is auto-generated from syntax (design): https://www.algebraicjulia.org/assets/slides/nist-workshop-2022/main.html#/syntax-and-semantics https://www.algebraicjulia.org/assets/slides/nist-workshop-2...
If we look in another direction we see LLMs which (will one day) generate code from design.
If I look back those years in my career, I was always paid to write the same code all over again (lists, trees, tables, menus, user profiles, shopping carts, dashboards, heroes, apis, databases...), each time in a different context (given by the company) ... Such a waste of my time, and my employers money.
Today at least in the MVP / startup scene coding is debt / obsolete. Startups all should go no-code.
Later, after the startup phase, companies should focus _only_ on provably-correct, likely-correct understanding of their problem domain, on a design specific to their audience, and rapid iteration. The rest, coding, should be not no-code, but fully automatic yet provably correct (in the sense of total and partial correctness)
I hope, and I wish coding will be eliminated. It's a big fun writing machine code in Assembly, algorithms in C/C++, full-stack web apps in Ruby on Rails, and user interfaces in React.
But after a while it's not sustainable neither emotionally nor economically.
- syndicatedjelly 3y agoDo you really believe no-code applications mean there’s 0 code? You’re just relying on someone else’s code at that point, and have no ability to customize business logic.