[rmason]

Though I wasn't a developer then I well remember when I was in college in the early seventies that stidents would take this giant super wide computer printer paper and draw out what their Cobol program would do. They had these pieces of clear plastic that had holes cut for all these symbols. Stuff like squares, rectangles and circles you could trace. So you built everything, form fields, yes/no trees out on paper before you started even writing code.

We are going backward to go forward. If you can feed ChatGPT a photograph to write the actual code isn't this the future of programming?

[rolph]

this idea could feasibly produce code replicating the gui, but the IO and algorithmic funtionalities, would be in a black box

[fzzzy]

That's flowcharting, not quite the same as sketching out a user interface.