Personal computing pioneers overestimated coding appeal; AI unlocks tiny personal software
pixlpa · x · 2026-09-27
In a reply thread, the author argues that the pioneers of personal computing believed ordinary people could use computers as easily as computer scientists, but sorely overestimated how appealing learning programming languages would be.
With AI coding, that gap is finally closing: the author expects an explosion of domestic-scale tiny software built just to exercise a passing thought, solve an immediate need, or communicate something hard to articulate — a form of computing that "should have always been the case."
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