A lot of devs will say: "Go make your own app then!" when not everyone has those skills or training.
I would love to see an app that let's anyone build an app without coding, preferably a #Nostr app. Imagine what we would see if app building were democratized, and not just in the hands of the few who know software development, like some priestly caste.
A.I. may help us get there...
A lot of doctors will say: "Go do your own surgery then!" when not everyone has those skills or training.
A lot of mechanics will say: "Go fix your own car then!" when not everyone has those skills or training.
You expect devs to work for you for free? And you're looking forward to the day when those same devs that have already provided you with free software are replaced by AI. You're actively wishing for bad things to happen to a bunch of people because you can't write programs?
Selfish and ungrateful for what you already have, and demanding more for nothing. You're not a nice person.
🙄 You've made a lot of assumptions about my motives there. I don't wish anything bad to happen to devs, I was just trying to put the aspiration out there to make it possible for anyone to build an app, in a sense to have more devs than we currently do, even if they are not coding.
Things like Replit and Cursor
It's not really a priestly caste. It's just people who wanted to learn taking the time to actually do it.
True, which I why I wrote "like" some priestly caste.
Lol That's some serious tap-dancing. What is the practical difference? It's also not "like" a priestly caste. It's a skill that some people invest the effort in learning. Are plumbers "like" a priestly caste? Do we need to democratize plumbing?
It was an analogy, and not an attack on developers like it seems some are taking it.
I was going to write how the invention of the printing press democratized book-making so that books became more widely available, and wasn't just in the hands of monks and scribes as was previously done. Though yes, anyone could have taken the time to hand copy their own book if they were so inclined and had access to one they could copy. But the printing press and copiers and word processors and computers have made the process so much better and widespread.
I mean, coding is already very accessible. There are tons of tutorials and free beginner resources available to anyone who wants them. There's pretty much no barrier to learning. I'd say it's already a democratized skill.
So we should just keep things as they are?
I didn't say that. I'm challenging your stated perspective that software developers are like a priestly caste. I think that's a glib and fundamentally mistaken point of view that ignores the practical reality.
Ok, I wasn't trying to imply that they keep others out or that they are nefarious or should lose their jobs or anything, only that they are like a group possessing specialized knowledge and skills that not everyone has acquired, and so software that is created comes through them. To get an app idea you have built you either have to be a developer and build it yourself, or have a developer build it for you.
I think there are some experimental development platforms that allow you to develop web apps without coding. You should check out this list of the 8 best "no code" app builders.
