More things need to be made programmable

In the the before-times, making a small app in an unfamiliar framework was challenging. Say you wanted to automate something with Google Workspace using App Scripts (Google’s equivalent to VBA¹). You read documentation, copy/paste/modify boilerplate code, and search Stackoverflow when you hit a wall.

With LLM’s, you can describe what you want an app to do using precise language (i.e. pseudocode), and like manna from the heavens², the code appears on the screen.

LLM’s have made creating small apps or scripts trivially easy³. Large ones — not so much — at least not in one go.

More things need to be programmable

I would like to control my rice cooker and bread machine with Python.

I want more interfaces to run scripts that do useful things.

For physical devices, I don’t want to learn how to use microcontrollers. I also don’t want to tie everything together into a smart home network. I would like individual devices to have the ability to run code. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not talking about my rice cooker needing to have an app store. I just want a friendly interface to easily execute code on differing things.

1. This is sort of true — they’re pretty different though.

2. Manna scraped from Stackoverflow and Github and served up with a heaping side of CO2 emissions

3. Apps or scripts with a clear purpose solving a well-defined problem