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slop but also lowers barrier to entry for others to start building!

This will be a controversial opinion but I honestly believe the barrier is too low. We don’t give doctors a 6 month bootcamp and say “hey, go operate on some people!”

Yet you can get hired writing code that manages millions of dollars quite easily.

This isn’t a call for increased credentialism (I’m a college dropout and very proud of it). It’s a call for higher standards for everyone. If you want to write code that’s awesome, but it shouldn’t be easy.

Neovim enjoyer, "a gift to the culture" | Building at /thirdweb

There will be plenty of work for non-AI devs for building stuff that hasn't been done before, but for stuff that's relatively old (building websites) AI is perfect

I am a wealth of knowledge - unfortunately my knowledge is useless | Game Designer | /sands-of-sumaii

Let me give a tangible example.

I needed to convert pictures into pixel art. I had to buy Adobe Illustrator $36/month to do this. It took 10 mins per image.

With Cursor AI, I created a script in 30 seconds that automated that process away. It could handle 1,000s of images in minutes using open source python. However, Claude costs $20/month.

So for $20 I created a script that removed my need for Adobe and could do it 1000x faster. All without writing a single line of code!

This is a perfect use case for AI code. No maintenance needed. It’s one simple python file.

This is true but every project devolves into something unique/unplanned