I thought the analysis in Code is the new No-Code was intriguing.

· Bits and Bobs 3/24/25
  • I thought the analysis in Code is the new No-Code was intriguing.
    • In the past, tools that wanted to give turing completeness to non-engineers went out of their way to hide code from users.
      • Inventing UX like nodes and wires, or other domain specific languages.
      • These tend to be confusing to everyone–programmers don't understand them because they're DSLs they aren't familiar with, and non-programmers get just as overwhelmed.
    • But most code is quite simple, if you could cut out all the other cruft necessary for error handling, imports, etc.
    • LLMs allow you to focus just on the key parts of the code, not all of the distracting parts.