Based on the concept of china’s barefoot doctors that doubled life expectancy with basic medical care, barefoot developers use Large Language Models and development tools to create their own software for highly specialised, local goals.
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But I have this dream for barefoot developers that is like the barefoot doctor.
These people are deeply embedded in their communities, so they understand the needs and problems of the people around them.
So they are perfectly placed to solve local problems.
If given access to the right training and tools, they could provide the equivalent of basic healthcare, but instead, it’s basic software care.
Microtooling
Microtooling
In addition to broadening the group of people capable of writing tools (read my note on Barefoot Developer), AI Agents have also increased the ease at which we are able to create microtools, for which the quality of code is less important than achieving the goal itself.
Transclude of isometric-nyc#creating-microtools-with-agentsresources
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reference
- https://maggieappleton.com/home-cooked-software
- term coined by Maggie Appleton