Comment by embedding-shape
1 month ago
But do you think this is our first rodeo with "XYZ has fundamentally shifted things and startups now start up faster"? RoR did the same, Bootstrap as well, and countless of other things.
Don't get me wrong, I leverage these AI tools as well to be more productive, I'm not against using it or anything else. But I'm also old enough to know that eventually AI will be "old news" when the next hot topic comes around.
> But do you think this is our first rodeo with "XYZ has fundamentally shifted things and startups now start up faster"? RoR did the same, Bootstrap as well, and countless of other things.
I really don't understand anyone who can say something like this with a straight face. Comparing AI to Bootstrap? I...
Both have sped up front end development at the cost of making half of the internet look the same.
I don't think it's fair to blame AI just because people aren't prompting unique design elements into their vibe-coding.
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It must be some sort of denial playing into this
That seems like comparing the internet to jQuery.
Only if you're actively inside of the hype-machine and don't see it from the outside with the experience of previously having been inside of the hype-machine.
No. RoR lets you build a certain class of web apps faster. AI lets you build almost anything faster.
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