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[Developers] aren’t gathering together in online spaces to learn and teach and share exciting projects anymore
As a slight more optimist view in my personal experience, I’m here just to read other people views even if I’ll never learn or understand the language they are talking about.
On another note, it’s a nice recap of several authors that I should check. Quoting the Simpsons:
You know, if we get through to just that one little girl, it’ll all be worth it.
Yes. Particularly if that little girl happens to pay $46,000 for that doll.
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Surprised, and a bit demotivating, at reading the $now two dismissive comments on somebody sharing their opinion of people losing their motivation and sustainability in web development education, specifically due to LLMs.
They didn’t just create courses and ebooks, they tried to educate in how the web platform and API works and what changes. Free ebooks(Axel’s books are GREAT)/youtube videos are mentioned as well, but they now hold very little value in connecting with an audience these days, because nobody is browsing web content, so why diminish that loss?
What do people actually expect to happen when they say LLMs creates bloated/inaccessible websites easily, but that’s okay because people do that. Generating more code is the solution that problem?
I really like supporting/sponsoring educators a lot more rather than paying a monthly subscription to $corp.
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Imagine 10 years from now we will have evolved front ends exactly as much as copper pipes have evolved in 3 decades.
If everyone just vibe the front end with their latest mcp-superpower-rip-all-dribbbble and make-no-mistake plugin, there will be more innovation.
If we are the last generation of knowing how to innovate we will truly be doomed. Educators in this space are extremely important.
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This reminds me of how in the era of exponential CPU speed ups (1995-2015?), people thought it wasn’t worth optimizing your programs, because the next generation of CPUs would close the gap for you. Maybe people now think that we don’t need innovations anymore, because the next generation of LLMs will either do it for us anyway, or they will make progressively better use of the existing technologies.
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The era of exponential CPU speed ups went from the 1950s to 2005, when CPU speeds generally capped out at 3GHz. Since then we’ve gotten more cores, but raw speed hasn’t changed that much.
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Fair enough, I actually had the sentiment in mind when I was writing down the time range. I heard that argument quite often in relation to the rise of bytecode and interpreted languages as alternatives to C/C++ for application development in the 90s. Though perhaps people had been saying this before that too.
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