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That's not why low-code or WYSIWYG failed. I mean arguably they didn't fail - Squarespace and Notion seem to be doing fine. But the reason they didn't fully rep
by IshKebab 1y ago
That's not why low-code or WYSIWYG failed. I mean arguably they didn't fail - Squarespace and Notion seem to be doing fine. But the reason they didn't fully replace most developers is that people generally want to do things that are outside the capabilities of the platforms. They aren't generic enough for every use case.
AI is fundamentally different in that regard.
There should be a name for this fallacy - the previous attempts failed therefore all attempts will fail.
- SketchySeaBeast 1y agoSure, same with the "This time is fundamentally different" fallacy. See my previous comment about apocalyptic cults. Important to note I'm not saying there is no technology ever that won't fill that gap, GenAI probably would, but I'm not at all convinced that LLMs are the right tech to do everything that needs to be done to replace devs.
- IshKebab 1y agoI mean, if you can't tell the fundamental difference between AI and low code/WYSIWYG I don't know what to say...
- owebmaster 1y agoI mean, if you can't see the difference between assembly and C was much bigger and unleashed the great age of programming, I don't know what to say
- Jensson 1y ago> They aren't generic enough for every use case. > AI is fundamentally different in that regard. Currently most projects are outside of the capabilities of AI. Platforms can get better and add more features, why is that different than AI getting better and can do more? Back then it wasn't known if it was possible to make these platforms generic enough that you could replace programmers. You couldn't. Today we aren't sure if it is possible to make transformer based AI generic enough to replace programmers. Time will tell if we can. So to me it looks exactly the same.