Notices by Joe Pasqua (bitsplusatoms@mastodon.social)

@larsbrinkhoff @amszmidt @interlisp I don't have one or know of one.

@interlisp I run Medley on a Raspberry Pi housed in a 3D-printed 30% scale replica of a Xerox 1108 computer. It also runs Mesa and Smalltalk 80. It is usable on the small monitor, but viewing remotely is a less cramped experience.

Have you noticed there are lots of articles recently with titles of the form “I’m an expert in X, here is what I think about X-related topic”? E.g. “I'm an AV expert, here’s the best new TV”

I invite you to read the bios of the authors. It’s interesting what it takes these days to be considered an expert.

@eschaton @bitsavers Good points. Here is another perspective.

For many, Excel took the place of 4GLs. People could get things done in an ad hoc way when they couldn't get IT attention/resources. These aren't programs in the way you or I think about them, but they fulfill a need. This happens continually in large and small businesses.

I believe that at a minimum LLMs will amplify the power of these non-programmers to write more “code” that would otherwise go unwritten. See MS Office Copilot.