I think we're all in denial about how bad software engineering has gotten. When I look at what's required to publish a web page today vs in 1996, I'm appalled. When someone asks me how to get started, all I can do is look at them and say "I'm so sorry":
So "coding was always the hard part". All AI does is obfuscate how the sausage gets made. I don't see it fixing the underlying fallacies that turned academic computer science into for-profit software engineering.
Although I still (barely) hold onto hope that some of us may win the internet lottery someday and start fixing the fundamentals. Maybe get back to what we used to have with apps like HyperCard, FileMaker and Microsoft Access but for a modern world where we need more than rolodexes. Back to paradigms where computers work for users instead of the other way around.
Until then, at least we have AI to put lipstick on a pig.
I think we're all in denial about how bad software engineering has gotten. When I look at what's required to publish a web page today vs in 1996, I'm appalled. When someone asks me how to get started, all I can do is look at them and say "I'm so sorry":
https://xkcd.com/1168/
So "coding was always the hard part". All AI does is obfuscate how the sausage gets made. I don't see it fixing the underlying fallacies that turned academic computer science into for-profit software engineering.
Although I still (barely) hold onto hope that some of us may win the internet lottery someday and start fixing the fundamentals. Maybe get back to what we used to have with apps like HyperCard, FileMaker and Microsoft Access but for a modern world where we need more than rolodexes. Back to paradigms where computers work for users instead of the other way around.
Until then, at least we have AI to put lipstick on a pig.