Though I wasn't a developer then I well remember when I was in college in the early seventies that stidents would take this giant super wide computer printer paper and draw out what their Cobol program would do. They had these pieces of clear plastic that had holes cut for all these symbols. Stuff like squares, rectangles and circles you could trace. So you built everything, form fields, yes/no trees out on paper before you started even writing code.
We are going backward to go forward. If you can feed ChatGPT a photograph to write the actual code isn't this the future of programming?
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[ 2.4 ms ] story [ 294 ms ] threadWe are going backward to go forward. If you can feed ChatGPT a photograph to write the actual code isn't this the future of programming?
The experience is a bit more: Start writing code -> GitHub copilot autocompletes -> Dashboard
GIF of it in action: https://twitter.com/evidence_dev/status/1631477155229237248
Previous discussions on HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28304781 - 91 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35645464 - 97 comments