What's incredible is how software engineers have failed over the last decade to truly advance the creation of CRUD apps.
Making a CRUD app in many ways has become much more complicated than it was when I started programming 10 years ago.
Today when I want to build an application, I often find myself frustrated and bemused at the state of things. Not because I find it difficult to write TailWind, or connect my Redux state to a component, but because I would have imagined the increase in the number of engineers would have led to more abstractions that would have simplified the creation of a CRUD app, which is are just glorified web forms.
I wonder if ChatGPT had even stood a chance if engineers were good at engineering. But engineers are really mostly good at boiler-plating code complex enough to ensure job security. Which ChatGPT might excel at one day.
What I would have liked to have seen is a world in which we were good at creating abstraction layers to solve an entire class of problems. But alas, I might have asked for too much.
Making a CRUD app in many ways has become much more complicated than it was when I started programming 10 years ago.
Today when I want to build an application, I often find myself frustrated and bemused at the state of things. Not because I find it difficult to write TailWind, or connect my Redux state to a component, but because I would have imagined the increase in the number of engineers would have led to more abstractions that would have simplified the creation of a CRUD app, which is are just glorified web forms.
I wonder if ChatGPT had even stood a chance if engineers were good at engineering. But engineers are really mostly good at boiler-plating code complex enough to ensure job security. Which ChatGPT might excel at one day.
What I would have liked to have seen is a world in which we were good at creating abstraction layers to solve an entire class of problems. But alas, I might have asked for too much.