Comment by rsynnott

> 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.