Software developer, formerly at Microsoft, now co-developer of the AccessKit open-source project (https://accesskit.dev/) and cofounder of Pneuma Solutions (https://pneumasolutions.com/). My current favorite programming language is Rust, but I don't want to make that part of my identity.
Music lover. Karaoke singer. Science fiction fan. Legally blind. Secular humanist
Question for blind people who use LLM coding agents, vibe-coding or otherwise: Have you done any useful coding projects with a local, open-weights model yet? If so, what agent harness do you use? Is there one that works with at least one local model *and* has a reasonably accessible UI?
Replying to @fastfinge@interfree.ca
@fastfinge I think I agree with you about BGT and Quorum, though I'm friends with Prof. Stefik (the lead developer of Quorum) and appreciate that his team is trying to make CS education more accessible. But I didn't suggest designing another programming language specifically for blind people, just improved programming language design in general. I refuse to believe that the current mainstream languages will be the last popular mainstream languages forevermore.
Replying to @nick@hkc.social
@nick I'll be curious to hear what my followers who are into programming language design and psychology (I do have at least one follower in each of those fields) think of this. To me though, it sounds like we still have room for improvement in programming language design. Not that there's much funding for that, with everyone chasing AI.
Replying to @lerven@tweesecake.social
@lerven Thanks. I was particularly curious to hear from you, because I know you shipped several games in VB6 and BGT. I'm curious about how you got burnt out on actual coding.
Question for people who vibe-code full apps, especially blind people, as I believe that covers most of my followers who do this: What would it take for you to be comfortable coding directly in a programming language without an LLM? A high-level programming language with better tutorials and quickstart templates than are currently available, particularly for writing real apps? Or do you believe that having an LLM generate the code is the only way you could practically do what you do?