I remembered what vibe coding reminds me of: Excel macros. \u00a0Back in the day, there was this whole class of non-programmers who were suddenly empowered to build tools unique to them or their organizations, by leveraging macros in Excel and (to a lesser extent) other Office products. \u00a0There was, for example, a little old accountant at the Henry Luce Foundation who had built himself a whole stack based on Excel that nobody else would ever use but which was of immense benefit to his work.<\/p>\n
Microsoft in turn leveraged this emerging user base with Visual Basic for Applications, upon which towering edifices of enterprise code were constructed, most of which tottered and fell after a few years when they became unmanageable. \u00a0But that was because they had left behind the thing that made them great, the non-programmer who suddenly found himself empowered to build his own tools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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