I’ll offer a few cents which is probably what my input is literally worth as a layman, but I’m now able to build full-stack apps, soup to nuts, as someone who’s entire coding experience to date was a helloworld in a python tutorial when I was a child.
Cursor/Claude et al can now one shot entire single purpose apps, and errors seem to be on a downward trend. The N hours lost untangling code don’t take into account the time saved in construction; but keeping that in mind how much time is spent in debug?
What’s the saying? 50% of time spent in programming is coding and the 90% is debugging? I know that’s a joke but now you’ve largely wiped out that 50% and that 90% is chopped in half and is getting lower. Therein lies my point.
There’s no evidence of massive 5-10x advancements right now, but that’s because of temporary roadblocks that will be iterated out in time. And we aren’t talking decades of development any more. What’s going to happen when no-code apps can churn out scads of clean, seamless structured code? No bugs? What then?
I’ll offer a few cents which is probably what my input is literally worth as a layman, but I’m now able to build full-stack apps, soup to nuts, as someone who’s entire coding experience to date was a helloworld in a python tutorial when I was a child.
Cursor/Claude et al can now one shot entire single purpose apps, and errors seem to be on a downward trend. The N hours lost untangling code don’t take into account the time saved in construction; but keeping that in mind how much time is spent in debug?
What’s the saying? 50% of time spent in programming is coding and the 90% is debugging? I know that’s a joke but now you’ve largely wiped out that 50% and that 90% is chopped in half and is getting lower. Therein lies my point.
There’s no evidence of massive 5-10x advancements right now, but that’s because of temporary roadblocks that will be iterated out in time. And we aren’t talking decades of development any more. What’s going to happen when no-code apps can churn out scads of clean, seamless structured code? No bugs? What then?