alt Hacker NewsSpreadsheets replaced developers for that kind of work, while simultaneously enabling multiple magnitudes more work of that type to be performed.
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65 • today at 5:09 PM
And I would argue speadsheets still created more developers. Analytics teams need developers to put that data somewhere, to transform it for certain formats, to load that data from a source so they can create spreadsheets from it.
So now instead of one developer lost and one analyst created, you've actually just created an analyst and kept a developer.
I do agree, that’s like my go to thought.
Citizen developers were already there doing Excel. I have seen basically full fledged applications in Excel since I was in high school which was 25 years ago already.