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>>aspect+(OP)
All these tools to build something, but nothing to build. I feel like I am part of a Pyramid Scheme where every product is about building something else, but nothing reaches the end user.

Note: nothing against fluid.sh, I am struggling to figure out something to build.

>>fallou+0j
That is the problem with software developers with expertise in software, but no deep domain knowledge outside the CS world.

>>aabaji+fm
It is my belief with some exceptions it is almost always easier to teach a domain expert to code than it is to teach a software developer the domain.

>>tempes+8s
That doesn't track at all IME.

Programming is not something you can teach to people who are not interested in it in the first place. This is why campaigns like "Learn to code" are doomed to fail.

Whereas (good) programmers strive to understand the domain of whatever problem they're solving. They're comfortable with the unknown, and know how to ask the right questions and gather requirements. They might not become domain experts, but can certainly learn enough to write software within that domain.

Generative "AI" tools can now certainly help domain experts turn their requirements into software without learning how to program, but the tech is not there yet to make them entirely self-sufficient.

So we'll continue to need both roles collaborating as they always have for quite a while still.