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Re:Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I hav... by ben_w on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @06:05PM (#46520119)
> The vast majority of coders in employment barely write anything more complex than basic CRUD apps. These jobs were always going to be automated or abstracted away sooner or later.

My experience has been negative progress in this field. On iOS, UIKit in Interface Builder is an order of magnitude faster to write and to debug, with less weird edge cases, than SwiftUI was last summer. I say last summer because I've been less and less interested in iOS the more I learn about liquid glass, even ignoring the whole "aaaaaaa" factor of "has AI made front end irrelevant anyway?" and "can someone please suggest something the AI really can't do so I can get a job in that?"

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Re:Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I hav... by marcosdumay on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @07:55PM (#46521102)
The 80s TUI frameworks are still not beaten in developer productivity buy GUI or web frameworks. They have been beaten by GUIs in usability, but then the GUIs reverted into a worse option.

Too bad they were mostly proprietary and won't even run in modern hardware.

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