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Also, people-people don't want to use no-code tools. They want to hire people to do that for them. If using the tool is really simple, the salaries will go down, but it won't remove the demand for "translators".

For the tinkerer, no-code tools are (probably) great, but if successful, even tinkerers will hire managers who will hire translators.



I've been forced to use no-code tools as a software engineer once. It's just a way less expressive programming language that you interact with using a GUI. I'd much rather have typeable logic that interacts with the framework. They tend to be built for nobody, since they're too complex for non-engineers and too simplistic for engineers.

The ergonomics of mainstream modern programming have been stable since at least the 90s. Any fundamental improvements that were going to happen have already happened.


Two members of my family have now called me on the phone a few times to ask me to ask GPT something, after I convinced them of its value and after I had them make their own account. They are absolutely smart enough to ask it but are very much non-tech people.

There is definitely a tendency of some people to avoid tech at all costs if they can and trust in "tech people." Fine with me, I ask them about my people questions often enough.




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