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ashoeafoot parent
We now have assembler, now anyone can program.

No, wait it was called natural language coding, now anyone can code.

No, wait it was called run anything self fixing code. No wait, simplified domain specific language.

No, wait it was uml based coding.

No, wait excel makros.

No, wait its node based drag and drop .

No, wait its LLMs.

The mental retardation of no code is strong with the deciding caste, every reincarnation must be taxed.


The big difference with LLM is that you don't have to have a conherant and logical thought, and the LLM will "fix" that for you by morphing it into the nearest coherent expression and show you the result.

Presumably, the LLM user will have sufficient brain capacity to verify that the result works as they have imagined (however incomplete the mental picture might be). They then have an opportunity to tweak, in real time (of sorts), to make the output closer to what they want. Repeat this as many times as needed/time available, and the output gets to be quite sufficient for purpose.

This is how traditional, bespoke software development would've worked with contractor developers. Except with LLM, the turnaround time is in minutes, rather than in days or weeks.

soulofmischief
What's wrong with visual programming?
ashoeafoot OP
Information density is low, some concepts are hard to display and thus absent by design from the language, the limitations of the display abd debug framework become the limitation of all code executed with them..etc., etc. list goes on forever
soulofmischief
It's a structured way of programming that can invoke particular mental models when solving certain problems. You could for example see it as a scripting language for high-level tasks.

For example, look at what Blender and Unreal Engine do with visual programming. Or you could see how Max MSP or Processing make music and data manipulation intuitive. And you can still address lower-level or complex concerns with custom nodes and node groups.

Done correctly, you can hide a lot of complexity while having an appropriate information density for the current level of abstraction you're dealing with. Programming environments don't need to be one-size fits all! :)

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