I'm going to be a lot better at designing personal-use software via an LLM than someone who doesn't …
… I'm going to be a lot better at designing personal-use software via an LLM than someone who doesn't have 30 years of experience writing software for money, because I learned things (like wish) which can be leveraged via LLMs to produce the output artefact faster and more reliably. For personal-use software, if all you know is HTML, CSS and Javascript, then all you can produce is electron-based crap as the smallest unit of software. Someone like me, OTOH, can produce small and tight software because I programmed in Delphi (now Lazarus), Qt, Tcl/Tk, etc in the past, and they are still viable. I recall seeing an electron-based vibed app recently on a ShowHN that, I thought at the time, could have be completed using a small bash script calling Zenity. The problem is what happens when people like myself (and yourself, too) are no longer around? …
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