diff --git a/src/pages/VisProgPage/VisProg.tsx b/src/pages/VisProgPage/VisProg.tsx
index 933c4ee..00410bd 100644
--- a/src/pages/VisProgPage/VisProg.tsx
+++ b/src/pages/VisProgPage/VisProg.tsx
@@ -172,41 +172,6 @@ function VisualProgrammingUI() {
   );
 }
 
-// currently outputs the prepared program to the console
-function runProgram() {
-  const phases = graphReducer();
-  const program = {phases}
-  console.log(JSON.stringify(program, null, 2));
-  fetch(
-    "http://localhost:8000/program",
-    {
-      method: "POST",
-      headers: {"Content-Type": "application/json"},
-      body: JSON.stringify(program),
-    }
-  ).then((res) => {
-    if (!res.ok) throw new Error("Failed communicating with the backend.")
-    console.log("Successfully sent the program to the backend.");
-
-    // store reduced program in global program store for further use in the UI
-    // when the program was sent to the backend successfully:
-    useProgramStore.getState().setProgramState(structuredClone(program));
-  }).catch(() => console.log("Failed to send program to the backend."));
-  console.log(program);
-}
-
-/**
- * Reduces the graph into its phases' information and recursively calls their reducing function
- */ 
-function graphReducer() {
-  const { nodes } = useFlowStore.getState();
-  return orderPhaseNodeArray(nodes.filter((n) => n.type == 'phase') as PhaseNode [])
-    .map((n) => {
-      const reducer = NodeReduces['phase'];
-      return reducer(n, nodes)
-    }); 
-}
-
 const checkPhaseChain = (): boolean => {
   const {nodes, edges} = useFlowStore.getState();