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Re:What Google Translate Can Tell Us About Vibecoding by alganet on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @08:15PM (#44305395)
> everything that is today a spreadsheet was a program some programmer had to write

That is incorrect, sir.

First, because many problems were designed to fit into spreadsheets (human systems designed around a convenient tool). It is much more likely that several spreadsheets were _paper_ before, not custom written programs.

Second, because many problems we have today could be solved by simple spreadsheets, but they often aren't. Instead, people choose to hire developers instead, for a variety of reasons.

Re:What Google Translate Can Tell Us About Vibecoding by tptacek on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @08:34PM (#44305507)
I'm not sure we're really disagreeing about anything here. If you think spreadsheets didn't displace any programmers at all, that's contrary to my intuition, but not necessarily wrong --- especially because of the explosion of extrinsic demand for computer programming.
Re:What Google Translate Can Tell Us About Vibecoding by alganet on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @11:34AM (#44310811)
You say spreadsheet software replace programmer.

I say spreadsheet software replace paper.

That's the disagreement. You have intuition, I have sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spreadsheet#Paper_spreadsheets

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spreadsheet#Electronic_spreads...