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>It’s our job to build the software factory - not just the software. Software engineers maintain the assembly line allowing anyone to prompt for a change and sh
by andai 4mo ago
>It’s our job to build the software factory - not just the software. Software engineers maintain the assembly line allowing anyone to prompt for a change and ship immediately.
The job of the software engineer increasingly becomes to make himself unnecessary: to empower the nontechnical business users to do as much as reasonably possible, without his/her intervention.
This has, of course, been the dream of computing, since its inception! And the true aim of every "high level" or "beginner friendly" (looking at you javascript!) language.
But finally, now that the computer actually speaks English (and is beginning to stop making completely insane errors), it gradually becomes feasible.
Freeing the masses from the tyranny of the nerds!
- inigyou 4mo agoThis isn't the first or even the tenth attempt at making computer programming accessible to everyone. Remember COBOL? COBOL made the computer speak English. It didn't help. A specification detailed enough to control every aspect of the resulting product is called a program. Compilers are AI. The prevalence of compilers hasn't harmed the programming industry at all, quite the opposite.
- andai 4mo agoWell, it's harmed the assembly programming industry.
- andai 4mo agoUpdate: since I have posted this my computer has made several completely insane errors. I guess we're not quite there yet haha.