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CFFBRW went from drag-and-drop to "hey AI, just deploy this for me"
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CFFBRW went from drag-and-drop to "hey AI, just deploy this for me"

via Dev.toBao Ngo3h ago

Hey! So if you've been following CFFBRW since the Blockly days (DOUBT IT!), things have... changed a lot. Like, "I threw away the entire visual editor" level of change. πŸ˜… Remember when I was all excited about snapping blocks together like LEGO? Turns out, when AI agents can write code better than I can drag blocks around, maybe the blocks aren't the product anymore. What happened So I've been reading a lot about the whole "SaaS is dead" thing (I wrote some research notes about it). The basic idea: value is moving UP to the agent layer and DOWN to the data layer. The middle β€” dashboards, drag-and-drop UIs, per-seat pricing β€” is getting crushed. And I looked at CFFBRW and thought... wait. My visual builder IS the middle layer. πŸ™ˆ So I rebuilt the whole thing around one idea: what if you just write what you want in plain English, and AI compiles it into a workflow? Before: Drag blocks β†’ Configure each one β†’ Deploy Now: Write markdown β†’ AI compiles β†’ Deploy The markdown is the source of tru

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