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Most of the stuff these Ed-Tech companies taught is counterproductive. Much of it was unnecessary solutions to problems that didn't exist. So so many Web tools are things created because their creator didn't properly understand HTML, JavaSript, CSS and the DOM. Then these schools taught everyone these unnecessary things and they become the standard and made things overly complex and give us massive build times for stuff that was never meant to need a build phase in the first place.

LLMs with HTMX and plain old CSS and JavaScript (maybe Typescript) is the future. Getting back to little to no build times and frontends that don't take up 1+ GB of RAM on the clients

This is hitting at the right time. Codex is already in the enshitification phase. They just broke their CLI version with some new thing that no one likes.

People it renders look Asian. If you give it a reference image of a caucasian it will render an Asian. I wonder why?

I wonder how many environmentalists are losing their shit over this and burring the lawsuit machine.

Does anyone get the feeling that Microsoft is trying to kill GitHub in favor of ADO?

I see this kind of thing and have two reactions.

1. Wow! That's so cool!

2. Why didn't someone this smart spend that time to build something that really matters?

I think a lot of the impressions of AI generating slop is a case of garbage in/garbage out. You need to learn HOW to ask for things. Just asking "write code to do X" is wrong in most cases. You have to provide some specifications and expectations just like working with a junior engineer. You also can't ask "write me a module that does X". You need to design the module yourself and maybe ask AI for help with each specific individual endpoint.

These juniors you're complaining about are going to get better in making these requests of AI and blow right past all the seniors who yell at clouds running AI.

I was an artistic kid and essentially came up with my own distinct handwriting "font". It was beautiful. 35 years later, all typing, I've lost most of it. Now my handwriting is illegible especially because that "font" is still the way I write but I don't have the muscle memory to execute it any more. The whole use it or lose it is very real.

Kind of hard without strafe.

You would probably get interrupted more by people wondering what that thing is.

He's definitely not talking about 5 line functions and DRY.

The clean code people are losing their collective minds reading that. lol

There was a startup called RheoTV started by ex-Apple people that did exactly that and it didn't work out.

There was also something called NeverThink that had the same fate.