tired_n_boredHey we solved software development, no need to learn programming anymore (Claude's source code leak)
IbuthyrWriting all these prompts almost seems like a more time-consuming thing than actually programming the software.
SundrayAbsolutely true, but executives kind of understand prompts whereas they don’t understand programming at all.
underiskI would wager quite a lot that less than one out of every ten executives could properly explain what an SQL injection is, or even know the term at all.
I worked for one executive who read an article about APIs and came to me and told me to start using APIs. In 2010. I told him it sounded good and I would look into it.
My exec asked “how is the ODBC coming?” We were a Linux shop. Also we weren’t, like, doing anything near the type of work that… it still baffles me. After a beat I said “good.”
darklamerThe great prof. dr. Edsger W. Dijkstra wrote exactly that already in his 1978 essay On the foolishness of “natural language programming”: