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Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀
@thomasfuchs.at

I don’t agree with some of the conclusions mainly because I think that reliance on LLMs to generate code will lead to programming languages that are optimized for machine use, not human use—and humans won’t be able to easily directly use them anymore.

Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀
@thomasfuchs.at

It’s like with tax software—makers of tax software have an interest in making tax laws overly and needlessly complex. Makers of “coding LLMs” have an interest in making it impossible to write code manually.

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Celestial M Weasel
@celestialweasel.bsky.social

I think this is right. Dave Winer is a weird crank with some holes in his thinking/ knowledge but he was clearly right that SOAP was deliberately invented to need complex tools in a way that XML-RPC didn't, for example. And with all the Power-BI etc bollocks Microsoft has conspicuously failed to

Celestial M Weasel
@celestialweasel.bsky.social

do a Visual Basic for Cloud. Like, at the appropriate points in history it was easy to use say Turpo Pascal or Fortran (DOS era) or VB3 (16 bit Windows) or VB6 (32 bit) to do adequate apps if you knew what you were doing ,but there isn't really a current equivalent for the cloud (with early web