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[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 44 points 5 days ago (1 children)

No apps, no code, just intent and execution.

So the only problems you’re left with are:

  • Making a precise description of what you want, at high and low levels of detail with consistent terminology
  • Verifying that the system is behaving as you expect, by exercising specific parts of it in isolation
  • The ability to make small incremental steps from one complete working state to the next complete working state, so you don’t get stuck by painting yourself into a corner

Problems which… code is much better than English at handling.

And always will be.

Almost like there’s a reason code exists other than just “Idk let’s make it hard so normies can’t do it mwahaha”.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 26 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It's really funny to think about.

Equations and algorithms used to be written in human language and there were many problems.

So over thousands of years we made this great thing called math language.

And now some people are saying it's elitist to be against writing algorithms in human language.