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The citizen developer is good news: what changed in v1.1.0
From v1.0.0 (2026-10-14, 8bc8089f5) to v1.1.0 (2026-10-15, this release), paragraph by paragraph.
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This is where Wardley maps help, and why I keep coming back to them. Simon Wardley describes three kinds of people for three stages of anything: pioneers,explorers, settlersvillagers and town planners. The citizen developer is an explorer, a pioneer, and that is exactly what an explorer should be doing: finding what is needed, quickly, by building it. Then the villagers take the brief and stabilise it, harden it and put it into production, and the town planners make it scale, with the non-functional requirements the explorer never had to think about: security, reliability, observability, cost, documentation, support.
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A voice memo of mine on 14 October 2026, after a conference, written by this site's agent in the voice of this site; the argument and the editorial responsibility are mine. A research agent gathered the evidence and the quotes were checked on the pages themselves. AWS, What is low-code?; Gartner, citizen developer; Wikipedia, Vibe coding; The Register on Panko's spreadsheet audits and on the test and trace error; James Kwak on the London Whale's spreadsheets; Simon Wardley, On[How Pioneers,to Settlers,organise Town Planners and Theft.yourself](https://blog.gardeviance.org/2023/12/how-to-organise-yourself-dangerous-path.html). All read on 14 October 2026.