2 posts tagged with "Programming"

From Code to Intentions​

Over the decades, programming has shifted from assembly to high-level languages, from scripts to frameworks, from IDEs to GitHub Copilot.
Today we are entering a new era: humans stop “writing code” and start “expressing intentions.”

Already, it is possible to describe a system in natural language and have an AI produce a working website or even a mobile app prototype.

By James Turner, Software Developer, London, 2013

In 2013, I was part of a team tasked with replacing a patchwork of Excel trackers and old Access databases with a single, unified claims management platform at a major insurance provider in London. The chosen tool: Microsoft SharePoint 2013. I’d worked with SharePoint before, but never as the core workflow engine for a business-critical system.