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There was a time when creating good, reliable computer software was hard; and expensive.
Thanks to AI and the advent of "vibe coding" however, things have changed.
If you believe the hype, now anyone with a good idea and a few dollars can sit down and knock up a program to achieve almost anything their minds can imagine -- even if they've never previously cut a single line of code.
Simple itterative refinement using an AI agent has allowed total non-programmers to come up with bespoke software that addresses their own specific needs in a way that no off the shelf package could hope to.
This must surely bee a huge worry to traditional software development houses.
Damn, why is it so hard to keep any reliable forum capability going these days?
I'll be working to get the forums up again but it seems that it might not be a simple task. The hosting company has obviously changed something but now it's up to me to try and get PHPBB working with their new configuration :-/
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