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You know, we invented systems before there were computers.
'Forms' were on paper, rather than on screens.
An 'in tray' was an actual metal wire, or wooden tray, for paper letters, notes, memos and forms.
A database was called a 'filing cabinet'.
An 'interface' was a mail box.
A 'front end' was a person, with a job title like administrator, or clerk.
These systems were described, in excruciating detail, in procedure manuals.
The processes were run not by CPUs, but by people.
'Bugs' were when people made mistakes.

Systems were difficult to understand, even harder to diagnose, and very very hard to fix or change.
To change the way a department worked, for e.g. accounts receivable was so hard that most companies never even tried.

And yet somehow people are under the impression that it is the code that is the difficult bit about modern business systems.
So they try and make the code part easier.
#LowCode #LoCode #NoCode #AI #GenAI #LLM

It was never the code. Code was never the bottleneck.

raganwald.com/2012/01/08/duck-

raganwald.comDuck Programming

People selling the idea of #lowcode, #nocode, and #AI-generated applications as meaning you no longer need #SoftwareDevelopment, leave out the fact that figuring out what you want, describing that in a structured way that can be unambiguously understood via some intermediate tool or language that is to be specifically prompted or configured, and then, via feedback loops, iterating towards an application that fulfills what you want: that is still software development, done by software #developers

Now is the time to get away from techgiants and all their tech promises like #llm #cloud #lowcode #microservices and all the other promises they made.

Amazing software is made by people that are passionate about their craft this is also true for software #development . Don't get fooled that #llm can replace the systems thinking and problem solving abilities a passionate developer gained over the years.

Most software doesn't need that "massive" scale that is described in all the tech articles. Most of the time smaller systems and even monoliths are a great choice if done properly.

Also look forward to move your software away from regimes that are truely against the free and democratic world. Host in for example in #europe . Move away from software that could be easily removed in minutes from you. #Selfhosting build your own specialised software and count on companies based in countries you trust.

I want my local #community to be able to write software that serves our needs (and disengages dependence on software apps that are in the process of enshittification).

To that end, I'm learning #lowcode techniques. Perhaps I'll eventually be able to teach non-coders how to regain power over our own digital lives and ecosystem.

Recently, I wrote a self-hosted n8n workflow that automatically transcribes and summarizes the notes I speak during my morning walk. It's a start.

Self-hosted Tools: cloudron, n8n, syncthing, whisper-asr-webservice

Mobile App: Easy Voice Recorder Pro

🚀 Want to build a **Wordle-style** game in **Microsoft Power Apps**? Check out this **deep dive** into a custom-built Wordle computation engine! 🎮🔡

✅ Implements duplicate check logic
✅ Uses the experimental **User-Defined Functions**
✅ Available on **GitHub** for download & customization

Read more: chribonn.medium.com/deep-dive-

Medium · Deep Dive into a MS Power Apps Wordle Game Engine - Alan C. Bonnici - MediumBy Alan C. Bonnici

"The #lowcode lessons #CIO s can apply to #AgenticAI"

Super insight on how to smooth #AI adoption, especially #Agentic AI, with case studies, research data, ++.

And great advice, based on a parallel history of success!

The amazing @marypcbuk.bsky.social via CIO Online

cio.com/article/3815367/the-lo

CIOThe low-code lessons CIOs can apply to agentic AIIf you’re searching for a playbook for successful gen AI adoption, look back at what works for citizen developers.

🎉🎉 New release of my #dashboard of #opensource #lowcode tools

Some new insights:

- Over 30% of low-code tools also call themselves #nocode, trying to target both markets 🤯

- Only 5% of the low-code tools use (explicit) #models to let designers specify the software to be built 🤔

- #AI starts to have some presence. 12% of the tools include some AI feature 🤖

📊 Dashboard: oss-lowcode-tools.streamlit.ap

⚙️ GH repo: github.com/jcabot/oss-lowcode-

📜 Deeper Analysis: modeling-languages.com/dashboa

We did a software experiment today 👨‍🔬🧪⚗️

I gathered 11 people to test during 2h our #lowcode platform BESSER as part of a #user #study.

During these 2h they had to "play" with the tool. They could #test any aspect of the tool (the #code generators, the web modeling #editor , the #OCL interpreter,...) and report all the issues (bugs but also feaures they felt were missing).

This was also a way to make sure everybody gained some experience with the tooling as some were only familiar with specific components.

I'm very happy with the result. We all learned a lot about what people expected from the tool. And as a result, we opened #70 new #issues 👏👏👏

Our next 🧪⚗️ will be to see how many of these 70 can be automatically fixed with an #AI #assistant 🤔. We'll first a triaging of those that are #goodfirstissues and start with those.

Later, we'll repeat the experience with the BESSER Agentic Framework

And, honestly, if you're developing a tool, try it with yours. I really think it's one of the actions with better #ROI you could do

Thanks to Adem Ait Fonollà Marcos Gomez Mengxi He Jonathan Silva Mercado Fitash Ul Haq, PhD atefeh nirumand Faima Abbasi Gwendal JOUNEAUX

and Armen Sulejmani and Iván Alfonso for animating the session