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| ▲ | oenton 3 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Side tangent: On one hand I have a subtle fondness for PHP, perhaps because it was the first programming language I ever “learned” (self taught, throwing spaghetti on the wall) back in high school when LAMP stacks were all the rage. But in retrospect it’s absolutely baffling that mixing raw SQL queries with HTML tag soup wasn’t necessarily uncommon then. Also, I haven’t met many PHP developers that I’d recommend for a PHP job. |
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| ▲ | throwaway173738 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| php was still fundamentally a programming language you had to learn. This is “I wanted to make a program for my wife to do something she doesn’t have time to do manually” but made quickly with a machine. It’s probably going to do for programming what the Jacquard Loom did for cloth. Make it cheap enough that everyone can have lots of different shirts of their own style. |
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| ▲ | jasonfarnon 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | But the wife didn't do it herself. He still had to do it for her, the author says. I don't think (yet) we're at the point where every person who has an idea for a really good app can make it happen. They'll still need a wozniak, it's just that wozniaks will be a dime a dozen. The php analogy works. | |
| ▲ | inopinatus 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | What the Jacquard machine did for cloth was turn it into programming. |
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| ▲ | Yizahi 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| And low-code/no-code (pre-LLMs). Our company spent probably the same amount of dev-time and money on rewriting low-code back to "code" (Python in our case) as it did writing low-code in the first place. LLMs are not quite comparable in damage, but some future maintenance for LLM-code will be needed for sure. |
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| ▲ | scotty79 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Right. Basically cambrian explosion of internet that spawned things like Facebook and WordPress. |
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| ▲ | qwm 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| ahahahaha so many implications in this comment |
