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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. …

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Installing Rust projects is usually as simple as calling `cargo install`. No need to wait for 5-30 minutes until LLM figures this out. People are delegating way too much to LLMs. In turn, this makes your own research or problem-solving skills less sharp.

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Just as a quick datapoint here in case people get worried; yes, it is absolutely possible to program as a blind person, even without language models. Obviously you won't be using your eyes for it, but we have tried and tested tools that help and work. And at the end of the day, someone's going to have to review the code that gets written, so either way, you're not going to get around learning those tools. Source: Am a blind person coding for many years before language models existed.

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ZA

The DSL sounds interesting, if you talk about it anywhere I'd definitely be interested in reading more!

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