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>>nsoonh+(OP)
I love this, too many people keep themselves busy discussing bits and bytes, or Stephen Wolfram's personality.

The reality is that by now we should already be at a level where common programming would be like Wolfram everywhere.

Maybe agents and LLM driven code generation is how we eventually get into the next abstraction level, sadly won't be without casualties with smaller team sizes, when so much can be automated away.

>>pjmlp+J7
Hi Stephen, is that you?

Jokes and sales pitches aside. We kinda have that already, we platforms that allow us to run the same code on, x86, arm, wasm… and so on. It’s just there is no consensus on which platform to use. Nor should there be since that would slow progress of new and better ways to program.

We will never have one language to span graphics, full stack, embedded, scientific, high performance, etc without excessive bloat.

>>wasmai+rm
Many VCs today would vouch that would be agentic AI.

>>pjmlp+5s
No. I work in VC backed startups. Externally they might say that for investors, but talk to a software engineer. Agentic IA is not working, it will regurgitate code from examples online, but if you get it to do something complex or slightly novel, it falls flat on its face.

Maybe it will someday be good enough, but not today, and probably not for at least 5 years.

>>wasmai+Nu
Meanwhile there are people delivering solutions in iPaaS tools, which is quite far from the traditional programming that gets discussed on HN.

Some of those tools aren't yet fully there, but also aren't completely dumb, they get more done in a day, than trying to do the same workflows with classical programming.

Workato, Boomi, Powerapps, Opal,...

>>pjmlp+qH
How is that relevant to this thread?