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		xorcist 71 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Snorting the AGI with Claude Code The 4GL was mostly reporting languages, as I remember. Useful ones, too. I still feel we haven't been even close to utilizing specialized programming languages and toolkits. Put another way, I am certain that Unity has done more to get non-programmers to develop software than ChatGPT ever will.

throwawayoldie 71 days ago [–]

I'd argue first prize for that goes to Excel (for a sufficiently broad definition of "develop software").

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