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This is like saying in the 90s that Google Search would stifle tech adoption ... I don't buy it. AI can teach me in 5 minutes how to write a kernel module, even if I've never seen one. AI brings more tech to our fingertips, not less.
I’ve been out of web dev for a while, but maybe the problem is there’s a new framework every 6 months and instead of delivering value to the end user, developers are rewriting their app in whatever the new framework is.
Nice stereotype. Does it hold water? I’ve been using the same backend framework professionally for over 10 years, and the same frontend framework for over 6 years. Clearly your thoughts on the matter are not reflective of reality.
Like several other commenters in this thread, I also wrote[0] something recently on a related topic: Google's AI Overviews and ChatGPT harm the discovery of long tail information - from a product builder's perspective. Basically, users are having a tougher time finding accurate info about your product ( even if the correct answer to their query is in Google's own search results ). And I also found the basic tier of C…
That's a gigantic "even if".
In my experience, I'm able to find stuff much easier with LLM's that Google search couldn't surface.
If I'm looking for a product that does exactly X, Y but doesn't Z, keyword search can be pretty terrible. LLM's actually understand what I'm looking for, and have a much higher probability of pointing me to it.
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Nice stereotype. Does it hold water? I’ve been using the same backend framework professionally for over 10 years, and the same frontend framework for over 6 years. Clearly your thoughts on the matter are not reflective of reality.
Yes. If you have a working system built on 10 years old web framework, it's considered obsolete and in need of being upgraded/rewritten. Why? Imagine houses needing to be rebuild because its foundation is 10 years old.
I’ve been out of web dev for a while, but maybe the problem is there’s a new framework every 6 months and instead of delivering value to the end user, developers are rewriting their app in whatever the new framework is.
There’s still the problem of many library authors playing fast and loose with semver breaking changes and absolutely gigantic dependency trees that exacerbate the issue. That’s where most of my churn comes from, not new frameworks.
Python and React may similarly be enshrined for the future, for being at the right place at the right time.
English as a language might be another example.
So what. …if society continues to delegate more of their work to AI then we are going to fall back into the grips that inform us that some people are better at things than other people are and some are worse at things than other people are and this is what lies beneath the bridge of relying or not relying on AI to leverage your capacity to think and act on what you feel. I think that People who will be willing to put…
I think it’s very easy to say people dislike the notion you said cause it goes against DEI (the e stands for equality btw), like it’s such an easy scapegoat. People just don’t wanna put the work in, or aren’t able to put the work in cause they are busy surviving day to day, y’know, putting food on the table. Cause that is not a given for everyone.
I wasn’t referring to “DEI” as in the corpo-state initiative but the concepts themselves as they’re received independent of how they’re packaged in the acronym; in a political context.
In this way, I think to call it “scapegoating” would do a disservice to a legitimate social conflict.
I agree with your final observation in general, but what’s your point?
I’ve been out of web dev for a while, but maybe the problem is there’s a new framework every 6 months and instead of delivering value to the end user, developers are rewriting their app in whatever the new framework is.
I don’t think that’s really the case anymore. The vast majority are on React, Vue, or Svelte (in order of my perception of their popularity). On the CSS side it seems like Tailwind and PostCSS has taken over. The heavier framework category is covered by Next.js. Other than Next, most of that popularity started solidifying in 2020. There are a bunch of newer frameworks like Astro and HTMX and so on, but it doesn’t see…
This is like saying in the 90s that Google Search would stifle tech adoption ... I don't buy it. AI can teach me in 5 minutes how to write a kernel module, even if I've never seen one. AI brings more tech to our fingertips, not less.
Did you read the article? It makes valid points that your comment doesn't address. It isn't a brainless "AI is making us stupider" post.
This ought to be called the qwerty effect, for how the qwerty keyboard layout can't be usurped at this point. It was at the right place at the right time, even though arguably its main design choices are no longer relevant, and there are arguably better layouts like dvorak. Python and React may similarly be enshrined for the future, for being at the right place at the right time. English as a language might be anothe…
I don’t think this has any truth outside of causing such argument. I am sure there is a paper on it that showed negligible difference for different layouts.
I used to use Dvorak but then I stopped when I was around 17? Qwerty for life.