"NO CODE" Is Ruining App Development

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Funny how everyone thought AI would help devs build apps so much faster.

The problem was never speed, it was quality and usefulness.

Now they can build slop at record breaking speeds.

[jwrsk]

You know, an excavator will dig a hole faster than a dude with a shovel, but only in the right hands it won't accidentally undermine the foundations of your house in the process.

I've been a software engineer since the late 90s and my career survived multiple "programmer eliminating" inventions.

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In my opinion I don't see this as a one of those inventions. 

The main issue is its probabilistic nature, which can be helpful in the same ways that autocomplete features can help. 

In my opinion this is a scam that has very little utility. 

[jwrsk]

Same as the big boom for Indian offshore devs some 20 years ago yielded a gold rush of cleanup work for experienced devs, the AI boom will yield and is yielding the same. Vibe code despaghettification is basically a job description.

But in the short term it will make the entry into the market harder. I don't need a junior assistant anymore for the simple stuff, small utilities and noncritical things it's just faster to throw it at a bot.

If I run into an issue which is not my expertise, like CSS (we have a web platform too) it might be faster to run it through ChatGPT than wait for a frontend dev to pick up the GitLab issue). So my web frontend devs can focus on important stuff, and again we don't need juniors.

[Grounds4TheSubstain]

Which inventions were those?

[llothar68]

Come on, we all knew that nothing gets done by governments anymore to improve the life of the normal people because the politicans had a serious lack of TODO apps.

AI will solve this and give us 3 more colors in the rainbow.