![]() ![]() Thompson predicts more of that… AI’s Impact And at any moment it’s going to fall apart.” And yet it’s been running their company - you know, their seven-person company - for 10 years. ![]() “I’ve had people show me, like, these Microsoft Visual Basic scripts that are like 10,000 lines long, that is just some crazy hairball of global variables just bonking up against one another. ![]() While it allows individuals to customize their solutions without bringing in expensive full-time developers, “The downside is: some of it’s going to be really rickety-weird crap… But “I think we’re seeing this massive explosion of stuff… almost 10 times the size of the population of coders, doing this code-adjacent stuff. This phenomenon has always existed - Thompson acknowledges that it was the audience of mainstream business users targeted by Microsoft’s Visual Basic in the 1990s. Lo and behold, you create something that is basically an application, catered to whatever weird problem you have.”) (Thompson gives the example of someone in Accounts Receivable using Zapier or Google Spreadsheets or “some sort of low-code/no-code tools. ![]() Looking ahead, Thompson sees a world with “a sea of people who are code-adjacent - just below people that are full-time developers…” and using “emerging toolsets” to automate their business logic. ![]()
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