Comment by hypfer
4 days ago
> Can you build a desktop/terminal app, web app/site, mobile app, or even a library without engaging AI is probably where I’d draw the line.
Wasn't the workflow there always to take the example code of whatever library or framework it was and then customize it?
I could definitely never start a react or android or c# or whatever application from scratch with no resources. Nor would I want to because why.
Works with C I guess though. Given that the contract is so small.
But that also breaks down the moment you want to write C for some uC, and then there's tons of boilerplate again you just pull from the sdk example.
Yeah, not the one you are responding to, but I wouldn't define it as from scratch.
Personally, "know how to code" is basically having the logic an reasoning skills to read and understand and apply documentation for whatever subject you need for this job.
If you have never written a web app in your life, but you can follow next.js tutorials and customize them beyond the tutorials afterwards, then you're at the point where the only thing you need is more time or more docs based on what you need to do at work.
You hit the nail on the head friend :)