Phweww - 100% agree and am seeing that with my app as well! It's been one of the most joyful pieces of building it, is that I am really making something for myself and have been using it and continually adding the things that I want.
People don’t actually want to build software. There will still be a market for hosted software that feels like magic. The next shape and UX is still getting fleshed out.
Also: the coded apps that AIs build are unmaintainable without a tech background. They may work for exactly their proposed happy-path and that may be great. But over time I can’t see how it’s possible these apps get maintained.
The readme was very clearly AI-written (or at least heavily AI-assisted)... not saying that's a bad thing, and I agree it's fairly well written... but it is very obviously AI
k, I just looked through it for where the latest is. First of all, the earliest version were fully written by me, and then lightly edited with AI. The current state are as follows: intro sentences written by me, "why lightspeed" section too. Quickstart AI written, Features mostly written by me, but AI keeps interfering there. Design was also written by me several times, it also used to be much longer, but I just noticed AI put one a few paragraph of slop in there, I think that's the most egregious--shame on me for not caching it. So, if I look at the readme right now, I would say it's about 60% me. It can be better, I'll make the effort because it really bothers me if readmes are not (mostly) written by humans.
I really don't have a problem with you using AI, as long as you review and validate/test what it writes, and seems like you did that. Great project btw!
The bit about "but the UI" sounds like a developer thinking "UI is a solved problem" in the same way MBAs are told "coding is a solved problem".
Product people do seem to think it worth exploring "personalized software for everyone" like literally each person gets their own custom UI. This does sound like a support mess but it's not obviously wrong when you think about the Microsoft Word alternative.
All problems arise from this statement. It's baked in us and it's why we do in fact survive. But it isn't so neatly righteous. When we struggle to agree on what defines a human, who ought to have rights, and basic equality, it's easy to see how much harm "we should fight for survival" does.
Let me go on the record, then: Given a choice between every living human being becoming absolutely, for-real dead and the human species surviving, then I come down on the side of human survival. There are too many humans that I love personally, and too many innocent people just going about their lives that I would like to protect. Given a choice between the mass death of billions, and their survival, I choose survival.
Human rights are essential. But human rights are difficult to achieve if everyone is dead.
"If a death ray comes from the sky and obliterates the entire planet, at least we all go together." There is something comforting about being together with the human race even in doom. Perhaps especially in doom.
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