Comment by brudgers

But on HN, there are lots of much more qualified people saying Jev is a con, a step backwards, or bonkers that people are impressed.

As William Gibson said, the future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.

So people get excited about existing technologies because they are new to them.

Wrapping an existing technology in a new package is a common way to introduce it to new people…there are many wrappers around ffmpeg, html2pdf, etc. that are marketed as products.

And they seem like magic…hell cassette tapes feel like magic to me even though I had a cassette player in 1973.

Often but not always, the best tool is the one in your hand or the one you know of because then you can just get to the work you are trying to do.

First make it work, then make it good. Good luck.