Solved Resurrecting old threads?

[NauticalGent]

borderline inactive, or borderline barely alive?

Yes...?

 

[Pat Hartman]

Is resurrecting old threads a bad thing? Especially if the poster has intelligently found a follow-up question to the exact subject matter at hand?

Yes. If the thread is more than a dozen posts, no one will read the entire thread and so the OP won't get an answer. It is better to start a new thread and include a link.

 

[BlueSpruce]

borderline inactive, or borderline barely alive?

The sad part is I don't see any new developers learning Access, so we will fade away via attrition. Perhaps Access app users, or AI, will step up to the plate and learn how to maintain their apps when the developer is no longer available?

 

[Mike Krailo]

Most newer folks probably don't key in on the dates of the threads and view them as if they are in the here and now by accident. I know I made that mistake, but after you have done it a time or two, you just know that you shouldn't be doing it, so you stop doing it.

Then there is the person who really does want to revive an older thread knowingly and they don't feel bad about it at all. After all, there really is no rule on it except for the unspoken or chided version of being shamed for it. In the grand scheme of things, it does no real harm. Certainly nothing that will affect any of us longer than the 5 minutes it takes us to consider how annoyed we just got based on a revived thread. I won't lose sleep over it for sure. I don't think it's worth spending anymore time thinking about it. But if this thread gets revived five years from now, it might get a laugh.

 

[AccessBlaster]

The sad part is I don't see any new developers learning Access, so we will fade away via attrition. Perhaps Access app users, or AI, will step up to the plate and learn how to maintain their apps when the developer is no longer available?

I disagree. AI won't hurt seasoned developers any more than MZ-Tools or similar utilities. You still need to understand the basics.
It's like putting two drivers in race cars, one a professional and the other a novice. The outcome will be vastly different.

 

[BlueSpruce]

I disagree. AI won't hurt seasoned developers any more than MZ-Tools or similar utilities. You still need to understand the basics.
It's like putting two drivers in race cars, one a professional and the other a novice. The outcome will be vastly different.

I'm not saying AI will hurt developers, I'm saying Access users will use AI to maintain their apps if the developer is no longer available, or if stakeholders no longer want to hire developers. Meantime, users will gain experience supporting their apps. How many experienced Access developers do you know who started out as Access users?

 

[Isaac]

AI won't hurt seasoned developers any more than MZ-Tools or similar utilities. You still need to understand the basics.
It's like putting two drivers in race cars, one a professional and the other a novice. The outcome will be vastly different.

I agree in the sense that I think you are literally correct , in "you still need to understand the basics".
Whether or not management of companies will comprehend and buy into that or whether they'll try to force vibe coding as they drool with excitement at the thought of the money they'd save from a layoff
But in the end, the truth must be vindicated by people's experience, as solely vibe coding for production assets will have enough catastrophic consequences that finally the Security department will say "Enough - you must have real programmers on staff to be safe"

 

[BlueSpruce]

I agree in the sense that I think you are literally correct , in "you still need to understand the basics".
Whether or not management of companies will comprehend and buy into that or whether they'll try to force vibe coding as they drool with excitement at the thought of the money they'd save from a layoff
But in the end, the truth must be vindicated by people's experience, as solely vibe coding for production assets will have enough catastrophic consequences that finally the Security department will say "Enough - you must have real programmers on staff to be safe"

Time will tell. In the meantime, Stakeholders are embracing AI as a magician who can do it all and save lots of money. If this big experiment goes sideways, then they will hire humans as needed to fix the problems.

 

[Isaac]

If this big experiment goes sideways, then they will hire humans as needed to fix the problems.

It will only take some data breaches/hacks to open their eyes that a PM armed with vibe coding tools is not enough.