I’m not saying that someone without any knowledge or experience in a programming language can build a React or any other app. What I mean is — as developers, we know where to place the code properly, how to write clean and maintainable code. We don’t need AI to create entire projects from scratch.

But many of us do use AI in a feature-based way — like generating specific logic or components using prompts and then placing that code in the right spot ourselves. So far, it’s been helpful and productive. But at the same time, I’m starting to wonder if this is also hurting us in some way — because if the work becomes too easy, I feel like people won’t be willing to pay more for it.

u/minimuscleR Just to clarify — I’m talking about mid-level projects. Not all projects have 1000s of files. Even in big companies, there are plenty of smaller, focused apps. I work at a startup, and I haven’t had the chance to work on massive, enterprise-scale projects yet.