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> what will spark a barefoot developer revolution is not LLM auto-coding, its making spreadsheet software more easily extendable and FUN. I've actually seen it
by flutas 2y ago
> what will spark a barefoot developer revolution is not LLM auto-coding, its making spreadsheet software more easily extendable and FUN.
I've actually seen it happen using exactly that.
A (non-tech) person trying to write an inventory management software for their company (which is highly regulated and inspected) using Google AppSheets.
No amount of "don't" was enough to convince them... 6 months and much of their sanity later they gave up.
- dagw 2y agoI've seen it happen too. No amount of "don't" was enough to convince them...6 month later they had a weird hacky solution that solved their problem and was used across the company and on the whole seemed to do what the relevant people needed it to do.