Brilliant article. I read a brilliant book written by Jessica Livingston (Paul Graham's wife) called Founders at Work. In the book Steve Wozniak talked about how he got designs done fast by keeping it all in his head. Ever since I read that I have tried to do the same. I would recommend this to anyone working on their own project.
Of course in a corporate setting it is much harder to do as you have code written in multiple languages using multiple patterns stored in different places, so often there is not underlying architectural thread to hold it all together.
One of the things I liked about programming the Apple II was that I could also hold the whole machine in my head. It's quite a contrast to wondering which of the 4,000 methods on a Java textbox I need.
I normally love the retool articles but I didn’t understand this one as much. Can someone explain it to me in a simpler way as I really want to understand it
Agree that it seems pretty vague and intentionally dreamy. My own interpretation is that as an answer to ai revolution they want to evolute from low-code to no-code
As the author of another language with uses content addressable code for all source code (also to aid in shareable code - https://yazz.com/app/homepage.html) I feel that it is really good to see that projects such as ScrapScript use this technique. Well done guys!
The problem is not only to make a desktop, nobody would implement it (NIH-Syndrom, thats why we have 12 karillion Linux Distributions), you have to ship your own distro.
Amazing article and comments! Makes me think we that we are using the world and our senses as a machine learning algorithm to understand things. I wonder what would happen if AI were given the same inputs?
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