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Re:Claude AI built me a React app to compare maps side by side by poslathian on Sunday November 17, 2024 @12:18PM (#42165381)
We’ll see what the future holds but as an old timer, using LLMs to creat applications seems exactly the same as:

Python/JS and their ecosystem replacing OS hosted C/C++ which replaced bare metal Assembly which replaced digital logic which replaced analog circuits which replaced mechanical design as the “standard goto tool” for how to create programs.

Starting with punchcard looms and Ada Lovelace maybe.

In every case we trade resource efficiency and lower level understanding for developer velocity and raise the upper bound on system complexity, capability, and somehow performance (despite the wasted efficiency).

Re:Claude AI built me a React app to compare maps side by side by quantum_state on Sunday November 17, 2024 @12:34PM (#42165491)
Well said .. Hope the pile of complexity accumulated would not be a time bomb ...
Re:Claude AI built me a React app to compare maps side by side by lxgr on Sunday November 17, 2024 @12:50PM (#42165597)
To be fair, that ship has sailed years ago in many areas of programming, even without LLMs...