"Why don't you just say that this store is selling pants that smell of poop, it's irrelevant that someone pooped in them because they also sell other pants that no one pooped in. Aren't you upset that they also sell you pants without poop in them?"
I've interviewed far too many nextjs experts who couldn't do anything else. That's not a skill, that's just knowledge, which at this point is freely available.
That being entirely unfair. It is still a skill. They still learning stuff. It does not help them to be trapped in a bubble. But nothing is not transferrable. Things we learn, even if they are only a React can't write vanilla JS, it's still unfair to say they have no skill.
Just not a correct interpretation. Many skills start that way and even some people make a whole career mastering one thing and one thing only.
Not saying being trapped in React land unable to break out is good. But being able to create something, even if it's just with Nextjs is still a good thing.
We should hate on the businesses that force us to take shortcuts, value quantity over quality. They wanted boot camps with code monkeys.
Libraries come and go, but understanding the web means mostly html, js (in the form of web APIs), and css.
I've also been using react professionally since 2015 and I've yet to see a nextjs application in the wild. It seems to mostly confined to the startup sphere.
It'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).
Believe me when I say that I am totally aware of this degree of functionality, but the reality is that the world is not burning trillions of dollars so you can generate side projects that never quite get good enough to go to market.
The sales pitch is as good or better than if someone with full understanding did it themselves. Maybe that's true for the first one or two rounds, assuming it's something that isn't novel. Beyond that it's just not true.
The premise of why AI will change the world is because Jill from accounting is going to make a custom reporting app.
Thing is Jill always could do that, she just didn’t leverage the information available.
Now Jill can make the reporting app, until it is sufficiently complex that the code collapses under its own weight or she finds that the numbers don’t actually mean what she thinks.
The thing that's changed is how time is no longer major limiting factor. Previously Jill would have had to learn enough about programming to make an app, whereas now she can write a few prompts and receive something good enough even if her lack of programming knowledge means the code is house-of-cards waiting to fall
No, she will receive something she thinks is good enough, but will have subtle bugs leading to wrong accounting without her realising, and potentially leaking all customer information all over the internet, and the entire business process grinding to a halt when she leaves
PlayStation 4 was a fork of FreeBSD 9, and is immune to this bug introduced in 14. Sony also changes a LOT, I'm not sure anything dealing with unix credentials even exists in this fork. It's not clear how much FreeBSD is even used in PlayStation 5 (2020), but it would be based off 12 or earlier (also immune to this bug from 14) (13 was released in 2021).
Whilst all are "soft-moddable" via HEN, a large number of the Slim and Superslims are not compatible with full custom firmware. Recently a hardware based exploit 'badWDSD' released which allow CFW, although even still a small number of Superslims are not compatible.
Even if I do still care about it, I hope I'm not so naive as to think that following the words of the AI agent will cause me to achieve my EM's intent. They'd be a useful reference at best for my actual knowledge of what they want that I found elsewhere.
Brother, I don't care who writes the specs as long as they sign the checks on time. And yes, I do care about my work even if upstream is slop. In a relay race, you can lower your performance to weakest leg, or you can be the strongest leg. And maybe I just like to run.
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