Comment by dd8601fn
6 hours ago
I’ve said something similar about dozens of frontend frameworks. It’s massive abstraction and convolution for some future payoff that’s obviously never going to happen.
But sometimes people just need something to do, or something fun to play with, and “the next guy” rarely matters that much… so who cares that you’ve saddled them with the result of your paid playtime?
So before AI I had the experience, more often than not, that it would take me longer to figure out how to use someone else's thing (or get it to do some particular thing, which often turned out to be impossible), than to just make my own.
And that was before I could just ask the computer to make it for me!
But most people seem to be the other way around. They'd rather deal with abstractions and boilerplate instead of writing the actual code.