Amidst all the buzz around things like Gas Town and Ralph, etc. there are some bits of actual substance that promise to actually empower coders — and potentially shift the power dynamic away from Big AI, while making it easier to create software just by describing ideas in plain text. I've been thinking of the idea as "codeless" software creation, for lack of a better term (the jargon doesn't matter, I just needed a name to talk about it) and would love your thoughts! https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/22/codeless/
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@anildash I do have a better term than #codeless!
I mean Donald Knuth does: #LiterateProgramming.
AI is new, but everything about what the developer does is, well, let's call it #LiterateDevelopment, just a slight shift into this millennium, reflecting that it really becomes enough to develop a system, still obviously referencing Knuth.
I think the word "literate" emphasizes the care and responsibility a dev should take not to produce slop.
@anildash We're going to have "codeless" software described in plain language. However, we should have a style guide. I believe most decisions should be 140 characters or under, and there should be no pastes.
@anildash @turian Are you aware that Dash merely reinvented Donald Knuth's "literate programming" concept https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming
@alyx_woodward oh hey, I didn't realize you already said it
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