Perhaps! But I do think the vocabulary issue is real and I think LLMs are still sycophantic enough that they won’t really challenge someone or offer alternative ideas on how to implement something unless they explicitly ask.

Interestingly at my work, Claude Code was available before Claude Desktop, so a number of non-technical PMs tried to use it in order to build… anything, with very mixed success.

The “hey guys, check out the website I built with Claude: http://localhost:3000/” joke is real!

In my experience, the whole “the terminal is a scary place” aspect is very real and some non-technical people can feel intimidated by.

I think Claude Code in the desktop app helps alleviate that a bit (perhaps Codex, too, but man what a mess the ‘ol ChatGPT app has become).

But I’m sure there are entire repos of web dev skills that someone could use to put together things with a bit of effort.

> the terminal is a scary place

Isn't the the powerful, unlimited, unopinionated blank LLM text input waiting for your instructions eerily similar to a scary terminal?

WIMP and GUI paradigms are the exact the opposite: intentional dis-empowering, by design restrictions, enumeration of your few possible options. Those feel more constrained therefore safer.