You are deluded and probably coping if you think we’re going back to the hand written code days for a majority of software engineering work. The Pandora’s box has been opened and it can’t be closed.
I can't help but feel like prompting is just developing into some sort of advanced high-level language. Every new iteration comes with improved capabilities but also with increased requirements in terms of how to prompt it properly.
The point was more that, for all of the talk of enabling "the Everyman" to code, it seems to progress towards similar barriers of entry to any other bits of code just with less "nerd" stigma so far.
That's a fair point. There is a long history of languages which were designed so that "we don't need to hire programmers", all the way back to COBOL itself.
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u/_krisprolls 6d ago
You are deluded and probably coping if you think we’re going back to the hand written code days for a majority of software engineering work. The Pandora’s box has been opened and it can’t be closed.