Re:Software will eat software in a remote-first world
by goatinaboat on Monday May 25, 2020 @03:13AM
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The idea that we will have some abstraction that will someday (in the foreseeable future) save us from all of this difficult work sounds very far fetched to me, and I can’t imagine how that would work.
We actually can imagine how a natural-language driven "black box" that translates it into code works: it's called offshore software development. The conclusion that everyone eventually reaches, having experienced varying levels of pain first depending on how quickly they learn, is that writing a spec detailed enough to make that work is as much or more work than just writing the code yourself!
We actually can imagine how a natural-language driven "black box" that translates it into code works: it's called offshore software development. The conclusion that everyone eventually reaches, having experienced varying levels of pain first depending on how quickly they learn, is that writing a spec detailed enough to make that work is as much or more work than just writing the code yourself!