Funny you say that, because I have the opposite opinion
Funny you say that, because I have the opposite opinion. It is easy for any of us to quickly bootstrap a new project in whatever language. But this takes a cognitive toll, and adds friction to bring our visions online. Recently, I went "blind" for a couple of days. My vision was so damaged I could only see blurs. The circumstances of this blindness are irrelevant, but it dawned on me that if I were blind, I could no longer code as I do. This realization led me to purchase a Max subscription to Claude Code and rely more on LLMs for building, not less. It was much more effective than I thought it would be. In my blurred blindness, I saw blobs of a beautiful user interface form, from the skeleton of my Rust backend, Vue3 frontend. It took my (complex backend in Rust) and my frontend scaffolding to another level. I could recognize it via the blur distinctly. And it did this in minutes / hours instead of days. As my vision returned, I began analyzing what happened and conducting experiments. My attitude changed completely. …
Original discussionReverse engineering Codex CLI to get GPT-5-Codex-Mini to draw me a pelican76 source comments · at import