Comment by Bengalilol
1 day ago
You pinpoint a truly important thing, even though I cannot put words onto it, I think that getting lost with AI coding assistants is far worse than getting lost as a programmer. It is like doing vanilla code or trying to make a framework suit your needs.
AI coding assistants provide 90% of the time more value than the good old google search. Nothing more, nothing less. But I don't use AI to code for me, I just use it to optimize very small fractions (ie: methods/functions at most).
> The future world of GPT-5 and Sonnet-4 still won't read your thoughts. Chills ahead. For sure, it will happen some day. And there won't be any reason to not embrace it (although I am, for now, absolutely reluctant to such idea).
It's why these no-code/vibe-code solutions like bolt, lovable, and replit are great at hackathons, demos, or basic front-ends but there's a giant cliff past there.
Scroll through things like https://www.yourware.so/ which is a no-code gallery of apps.
There's this utility threshold due to a 1967 observation by Melvin Conway:
> [O]rganizations which design systems (in the broad sense used here) are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
The next step only comes from the next structure.
Lovable's multiplayer mode (https://lovable.dev/blog/lovable-2-0) combined with Agno teams (https://github.com/agno-agi/agno) might be a suitable solution if you can define the roles right. Some can be non or "semi"-human (if you can get the dynamic workflow right)
> It's why these no-code/vibe-code solutions like bolt, lovable, and replit are great at hackathons, demos, or basic front-ends but there's a giant cliff past there.
Back in the day, basically every "getting started in Ruby on Rails" tutorial involved making a Twitter-like thing. This seemed kind of magic at the time. Now, did Rails ultimately end up fundamentally end up totally changing the face of webdev, allowing anyone to make Twitter in an afternoon? Well, ah, no, but it made for a good tech demo.