alt Hacker NewsIt's genuinely strange to me that people are acting like anything is possible now, because AI.
We had the internet for decades, with the sum of human knowledge largely available, no one used it.
Now those same uninspired masses are going to use to use the magic knowledge box to produce what they could never bring themselves to learn or research? No.
Just because the LLM can spit out code that looks good to you when you know what to ask for, does not mean that it is doing the same for everyone else.
It's not even a fair comparison - the effort involved in learning and building stuff from the internet (in the pre-LLM era) is an order of magnitude higher than turning your OAI/Anthropic account into an absolute slop cannon.
I'm primarily backend dev, but want able to prompt my way into building tiny JS web apps for personal use.
Wife always wanted to write animated story books for kids, and was actually able to create a bunch with Gemini (our daughter enjoys these more than the store-bought ones, since they're tailord/personalized for her).