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@jasongorman The coding part of programming is generally the easiest part of the work, and agreeing on the problem to be solved and what good looks like the hardest.

I started out programming at the microcode and machine code level. Ever since it has just been further and further abstraction. I don't think the next stage will be that different.

I remember the hype around 4GL and the imminent demise of programmers. Didn't happen then and it will not happen this time. Programmers will just evolve and mover higher up the stack again.

#nocode #lowcode #4gl

I remember writing business applications in 4GLs back in the 1980s. 4GLs (forth generation languages) were going to change programming, just like LLMs (Large Language Models) are supposed to now.

I used Sculptor and Zim and they were great, but it still took programming and business nous and data modelling to build an application that worked and could be maintained.

Nicely wrapped up here by @eschaton: The “Promise” of “Easier” Programming

#4GL #LLM

https://eschatologist.net/blog/?p=374