News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
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...