for the record I think it's wonderful that non-programmers can now build software, and furthermore I think programmers should be ashamed that this is what it took to make computing accessible
November 5, 2026 at 6:25 PM
for the record I think it's wonderful that non-programmers can now build software, and furthermore I think programmers should be ashamed that this is what it took to make computing accessible
Nyu, I mean, yeah. But I think that loses intuition for non programmers.
November 7, 2026 at 12:26 AM
Nyu, I mean, yeah. But I think that loses intuition for non programmers.
Core guidelines are actually pretty good. The problem with the core guidelines is now your programmers need to master a massive guide + your code is still pulling in non-core guidelines libraries. I used it 6 years ago, are the linters and stuff better now?
November 9, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Core guidelines are actually pretty good. The problem with the core guidelines is now your programmers need to master a massive guide + your code is still pulling in non-core guidelines libraries. I used it 6 years ago, are the linters and stuff better now?
The thing about non-binary programmers is, they don't use boolean types.
November 9, 2026 at 11:53 AM
The thing about non-binary programmers is, they don't use boolean types.
I feel like if anything AI-written software might be better if done by people who are explicitly non-programmers and just trying to solve a problem for a user base of just themselves or a small group. Programmers love to build monuments to our own cleverness, and AI only accelerates that.
November 5, 2026 at 6:57 PM
I feel like if anything AI-written software might be better if done by people who are explicitly non-programmers and just trying to solve a problem for a user base of just themselves or a small group. Programmers love to build monuments to our own cleverness, and AI only accelerates that.
As a programmer, it’s definitely not elegant, but for non-programmers, it’s as elegant as it gets.
November 6, 2026 at 7:27 PM
As a programmer, it’s definitely not elegant, but for non-programmers, it’s as elegant as it gets.
As Verse is a functional programming language, having no visual language for non-programmers will be a massive hurdle to migrate to this new version. Enforcing a single language, and especially a FP one, onto everyone is IMHO bizarre.
As someone who has spent decades in Unreal, this is a MASSIVE change that is a completely new development pipeline on the design and engineering side of gameplay implementation. It bears no resemblance to Unreal whatsoever and will require a completely new skillset that forces reliance on AI in UE6.
November 3, 2026 at 4:56 PM
As Verse is a functional programming language, having no visual language for non-programmers will be a massive hurdle to migrate to this new version. Enforcing a single language, and especially a FP one, onto everyone is IMHO bizarre.
🩹 Programmers worth their weight should first work with a weak, or at the very least, non-optimal PC.
Potentially even just laptops!
Do what Samurai Jack did in the "Jack Learns to Jump Good" episode, and handicap yourself first, so that you'll be much more powerful later on.
Potentially even just laptops!
Do what Samurai Jack did in the "Jack Learns to Jump Good" episode, and handicap yourself first, so that you'll be much more powerful later on.
November 5, 2026 at 3:30 PM
🩹 Programmers worth their weight should first work with a weak, or at the very least, non-optimal PC.
Potentially even just laptops!
Do what Samurai Jack did in the "Jack Learns to Jump Good" episode, and handicap yourself first, so that you'll be much more powerful later on.
Potentially even just laptops!
Do what Samurai Jack did in the "Jack Learns to Jump Good" episode, and handicap yourself first, so that you'll be much more powerful later on.
We're not emulating the GPU, so we don't have the luxury of just taking a snapshot of its current context, VRAM and EDRAM and storing it on disk.
From what I've heard from a few GPU programmers, pulling off something like this on the host for a non-fixed hardware spec would be pretty impractical.
From what I've heard from a few GPU programmers, pulling off something like this on the host for a non-fixed hardware spec would be pretty impractical.
November 5, 2026 at 4:01 AM
We're not emulating the GPU, so we don't have the luxury of just taking a snapshot of its current context, VRAM and EDRAM and storing it on disk.
From what I've heard from a few GPU programmers, pulling off something like this on the host for a non-fixed hardware spec would be pretty impractical.
From what I've heard from a few GPU programmers, pulling off something like this on the host for a non-fixed hardware spec would be pretty impractical.
for non programmers the easy rule is to say it up front: "if u need a key, ask me and ill paste it in the terminal myself. never write it into a file or repeat it back to me." then the model has nothing to repeat
November 9, 2026 at 7:09 PM
for non programmers the easy rule is to say it up front: "if u need a key, ask me and ill paste it in the terminal myself. never write it into a file or repeat it back to me." then the model has nothing to repeat
Turning a feature request into a link a coding agent can pick up
A lot of "can non-programmers build software with AI" debates end in the same place: someone writes a clear task, someone else reviews and ships. The hand-off in between is usually a chat message…
A lot of "can non-programmers build software with AI" debates end in the same place: someone writes a clear task, someone else reviews and ships. The hand-off in between is usually a chat message…
Turning a feature request into a link a coding agent can pick up
A lot of "can non-programmers build software with AI" debates end in the same place: someone writes a clear task, someone else reviews and ships. The hand-off in between is usually a chat message…
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November 8, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Turning a feature request into a link a coding agent can pick up
A lot of "can non-programmers build software with AI" debates end in the same place: someone writes a clear task, someone else reviews and ships. The hand-off in between is usually a chat message…
A lot of "can non-programmers build software with AI" debates end in the same place: someone writes a clear task, someone else reviews and ships. The hand-off in between is usually a chat message…
i think it's a non-profit. Been around forever but before this update it was pretty fugly and not very intuitive to non-programmers.
November 4, 2026 at 1:48 PM
i think it's a non-profit. Been around forever but before this update it was pretty fugly and not very intuitive to non-programmers.
🚀 Devlog Update:
Hard gamedev lesson learned: Version Control is NON-NEGOTIABLE! 😅
Direct file sharing worked fine when it was just two programmers early on... but as artists joined in for mid-late stage assets, absolute chaos hit! 💥
Setting up proper Git/Perforce right now to save our sanity! 💻📦
Hard gamedev lesson learned: Version Control is NON-NEGOTIABLE! 😅
Direct file sharing worked fine when it was just two programmers early on... but as artists joined in for mid-late stage assets, absolute chaos hit! 💥
Setting up proper Git/Perforce right now to save our sanity! 💻📦
November 4, 2026 at 3:29 AM
🚀 Devlog Update:
Hard gamedev lesson learned: Version Control is NON-NEGOTIABLE! 😅
Direct file sharing worked fine when it was just two programmers early on... but as artists joined in for mid-late stage assets, absolute chaos hit! 💥
Setting up proper Git/Perforce right now to save our sanity! 💻📦
Hard gamedev lesson learned: Version Control is NON-NEGOTIABLE! 😅
Direct file sharing worked fine when it was just two programmers early on... but as artists joined in for mid-late stage assets, absolute chaos hit! 💥
Setting up proper Git/Perforce right now to save our sanity! 💻📦
Even as a programmer, the blueprint system was a great way to build games without it feeling like my job. It had its limitations, but in terms of access to non-programmers? great feature
And now they're tossing everything in favour of slop
And now they're tossing everything in favour of slop
November 4, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Even as a programmer, the blueprint system was a great way to build games without it feeling like my job. It had its limitations, but in terms of access to non-programmers? great feature
And now they're tossing everything in favour of slop
And now they're tossing everything in favour of slop
I can understand jumping on a new language (at Epic's scale), but I've met "non-programmers" singing Blueprint's praises who made their whole games from spaghetti. Not for me, but it seemed weird to not leave it as an option.
November 3, 2026 at 11:47 PM
I can understand jumping on a new language (at Epic's scale), but I've met "non-programmers" singing Blueprint's praises who made their whole games from spaghetti. Not for me, but it seemed weird to not leave it as an option.
Most non-programmers associate “AI software” with either big brands forcing AI features or obvious vibe-coded slop.
I think custom firmwares are the first way that many people will start being fully aware or even participating in AI-originated projects that they feel control and excitement about.
I think custom firmwares are the first way that many people will start being fully aware or even participating in AI-originated projects that they feel control and excitement about.
November 7, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Most non-programmers associate “AI software” with either big brands forcing AI features or obvious vibe-coded slop.
I think custom firmwares are the first way that many people will start being fully aware or even participating in AI-originated projects that they feel control and excitement about.
I think custom firmwares are the first way that many people will start being fully aware or even participating in AI-originated projects that they feel control and excitement about.
Programmers often use the example of cookbooks and recipes to explain to non-engineers how software works, under the misapprehension that a recipe is simple.
What this norm misses is that cookbooks are actually a tremendously complex socio-technical endeavor- if engineers (and their […]
What this norm misses is that cookbooks are actually a tremendously complex socio-technical endeavor- if engineers (and their […]
Original post on social.coop
social.coop
November 7, 2026 at 1:25 PM
Programmers often use the example of cookbooks and recipes to explain to non-engineers how software works, under the misapprehension that a recipe is simple.
What this norm misses is that cookbooks are actually a tremendously complex socio-technical endeavor- if engineers (and their […]
What this norm misses is that cookbooks are actually a tremendously complex socio-technical endeavor- if engineers (and their […]
I think there's a group of people who feel that "not liking AI" is functionally the same as "not liking VisualBasic".
VisualBasic enables mostly non-programmers to do cool programming things with minimal experience. And I think people are conflating that with how AI enables people to do cool […]
VisualBasic enables mostly non-programmers to do cool programming things with minimal experience. And I think people are conflating that with how AI enables people to do cool […]
Original post on phpc.social
phpc.social
November 7, 2026 at 11:57 PM
I think there's a group of people who feel that "not liking AI" is functionally the same as "not liking VisualBasic".
VisualBasic enables mostly non-programmers to do cool programming things with minimal experience. And I think people are conflating that with how AI enables people to do cool […]
VisualBasic enables mostly non-programmers to do cool programming things with minimal experience. And I think people are conflating that with how AI enables people to do cool […]
I am very very pissed at the people who exploit the obscurity of our trade to manufacture consent in non-techies, TBQH. I wrote this some months ago in a fit of work-induced rage: lia-sae.net/articles/202...
Lia's blog - Code is a wedge and programmers are tools
Get the hammer.
lia-sae.net
October 31, 2026 at 8:15 PM
I am very very pissed at the people who exploit the obscurity of our trade to manufacture consent in non-techies, TBQH. I wrote this some months ago in a fit of work-induced rage: lia-sae.net/articles/202...
It's great conversation fodder because programmers either want to talk about knitting because they're knitters and they want to know what yarn and pattern I'm using, or they're non-knitters and they get mesmerized by trying to figure out how two sticks and string can make fabric.
November 2, 2026 at 3:28 AM
It's great conversation fodder because programmers either want to talk about knitting because they're knitters and they want to know what yarn and pattern I'm using, or they're non-knitters and they get mesmerized by trying to figure out how two sticks and string can make fabric.
Is it a genre film? 🤔🤷♂️ But it's a great character-driven, dark dramedy. There's a bit of blood and violence. Not gratuitous. The festival programmers wanted to add some prestige non-genre films - they have since the early 2010s. This is really good, heartfelt in the end. I really liked it. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
November 7, 2026 at 7:11 AM
Is it a genre film? 🤔🤷♂️ But it's a great character-driven, dark dramedy. There's a bit of blood and violence. Not gratuitous. The festival programmers wanted to add some prestige non-genre films - they have since the early 2010s. This is really good, heartfelt in the end. I really liked it. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Very true.
I used to tell folk that coding is like telling a machine how to tie your shoes.
Step 1: Make sure you have feet.
https://social.coop/@natematias/117575380903516337
I used to tell folk that coding is like telling a machine how to tie your shoes.
Step 1: Make sure you have feet.
https://social.coop/@natematias/117575380903516337
J. Nathan Matias 🦣 (@natematias@social.coop)
Programmers often use the example of cookbooks and recipes to explain to non-engineers how software works, under the misapprehension that a recipe is simple. What this norm misses is that cookbooks are actually a tremendously complex socio-technical endeavor- if engineers (and their managers/investors) better understood what makes them sophisticated, we might have a better tech ecosystem. Thinking about writing on this - would anyone be interested?
social.coop
November 7, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Very true.
I used to tell folk that coding is like telling a machine how to tie your shoes.
Step 1: Make sure you have feet.
https://social.coop/@natematias/117575380903516337
I used to tell folk that coding is like telling a machine how to tie your shoes.
Step 1: Make sure you have feet.
https://social.coop/@natematias/117575380903516337
I get a steady stream of blocks daily. Non-programmers have no concept of what has happened in the field in the last 3 years. Especially the last 6 months. They cannot fathom.
October 31, 2026 at 9:44 PM
I get a steady stream of blocks daily. Non-programmers have no concept of what has happened in the field in the last 3 years. Especially the last 6 months. They cannot fathom.
Ahh this is a great read, never had such a good word for this. It really explains why us programmers don’t think AI is the amazing silver bullet non technical people think it is.
good article about AI and (de)coherence, which argues that decoherence produces a much worse type of technical debt that is impossible to overcome maevyn.codes/decoherence
bit long but worth the read
bit long but worth the read
The Decoherence Trap: When AI slop drowns out the signal in an endless sea of noise
Of all the forms of tech debt, decoherence is the worst. It compounds exponentially with a system's rate of change, and AI is now producing it faster than ever, leading us deeper and deeper into the a...
maevyn.codes
November 1, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Ahh this is a great read, never had such a good word for this. It really explains why us programmers don’t think AI is the amazing silver bullet non technical people think it is.
“I realized that only now will we begin to see how much vibe-coded technical debt non-programmers have been accumulating over the past two years when their apps start falling apart.” — Brent Roose
October 31, 2026 at 2:00 PM
“I realized that only now will we begin to see how much vibe-coded technical debt non-programmers have been accumulating over the past two years when their apps start falling apart.” — Brent Roose