It's just a matter of time. The time you get freed up by these new tools are going to be used by new things, possibly learning something even more complex, and that also includes, potentially, creating more complex software and experiences.

No one is saying nowadays that they feel bad when they code in a high level language that gets converted to assembly with a compiler, wondering about the loss of not knowing how to code in assembly anymore. Because... most people didn't want to actually code assembly at the end of the day. They did it because it was the means to an end (produce software).

Of course there are people who love code in assembly and coding in whatever language with their own hands. For them, maybe the code itself IS the destination. Nothing wrong with it. It's just discovering who you are and how do you want to enjoy your own time. The same can be said about anything in life, not just code.

Speaking of means to an end, previous to AI, I've been using already existent CMS for my web projects. Be it Payload, Strapi, Directus. It was always painful, I've never enjoyed it, but something I had to do in order to get the frontend rolling for me and clients. Now I can literally architecture backends (with their own frontend!) from scratch with sqlite, bun, and minimal libraries. Control is tighter, much easier to achieve personalized experiences for each website, less buggy, creating tests suites for even the weirdest edge cases is a painless process, I'm not dependent anymore of the direction the CMS maintainers decide upon. Being able to mold shape a backend this way creates, for me and my clients, a far better experience. All while leaving more time for what I enjoy much more, which is fiddling with the UI/UX and fine-tuning down to the pixel the frontend itself with my bare hands :)

This is the real philosophical deep take of it all, are we using these devices, or are these devices using us?

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I love using AI. Getting my crazy ideas turn into software has never been easier. I like to architect software, not the code itself. The code has always been the means to my ends. I also love learning complicated concepts, from academics, math, physics, to art, philosophy, religion. It's wonderful to translate knowledge that is already out there but hard to understand somehow, because you can ask about it over and over and over and in the way you understand about things. Like a professor who understands you and never gets tired about silly questions. I don't know, it's just amazing at so many things. Of course, it's also pretty important to know how to use it, and when. I would never use it to replace my speech when speaking to someone else. That's bad. I would not like other people to do that to me either. Otherwise, why would I want to talk with that somebody when I can just ask an AI instead. We can love human beings and AI, and be critic of both at the same time.

Have you ever asked an expert in these areas to evaluate your knowledge? My experience is that people using ai to learn think they are learning but really aren’t.

The person you're responding to didn't say they loved software though. They said they saw it as a tool to get interesting stuff done.

This doesn't sound like someone who is uninterested in understanding software though, everything they said talks about how they like being able to learn from it. They didn't say anything about making slop or replacing the need for knowledge

I think you've built some awesome. Even if, as you said, it proves to be for an audience of one (you), I know some people out there are grateful for you sharing it. Comments are not reality most of the times. There is a silent portion which would like your idea and you just don't know. People here in HN tend to be very polarized towards a certain idea, come up with intellectual arguments to justify their emotional reactions. Of course you can find some light in negative comments, but still, to be taken with a grain of salt.

Someone said "a generation growing up without imagining. So depressing." This reads like old man yells to clouds. Through history you can find these comments about upcoming generations all over the place... We can make the same arguments in the past "oh you spend so much time reading others stories instead of writing your own? Yeah, you lack imagination kid, you're in big trouble."

To have nuance and avoid over-generalizing is a good exercise in today's society I guess.

Thank you. I didn't think this would be so controversial. A few people are in my email inbox with nasty comments. I've removed my email from the website. I'm not used such visceral hate.

Anyway I have children myself. They play, they write, they draw. And occasionally we do tech stuff like this. I use it as a choose-your-own-adventure with them. We also make up our own stories for bedtime. I don't see these things as exclusive

Maybe they will evolve to search actual exploits live in a competition or something like that :) or a marathon to research jailbreaks for certain devices and give control back to the user, like smart tvs, I don't know! Something that would be more involved and maybe real. It's just a matter of rising the difficulty, and the bright side could be that it might be used for something even more creative and good!

OK, but is that fun for people who don’t wanna clankermaxx? In addition this does not address the paytowin aspect of clankermaxxed CTFs

Thank you! We simply mount the entire app inside the landing page, but rotate and scale it down. When the page opens, it smoothly animates into full screen using CSS transitions.

Works and looks awesome!! On mobile clicking in a part doesn't do anything though, as it says in the description it should. (Should be tap on mobile instead of click). Android + Chrome, as reference

For what is worth, the fluent emojis from Microsoft, also named Segoe UI Emoji, have a 2D and 3D versions. They are beautiful! Although I'm not sure if the 3D ones are just complex vector images made to simulate depth with clever gradients and shadows, or were actually 3D rendered. I even saw some animations of them somewhere. Super cute

If you mean the new windows 11 emoji, they are some of the ugliest design with I’ve ever seen, and I say this as someone that appreciated the previous windows 10 style despite the hate it got.

In the camp of software development, if AI really increases productivity when it comes to development, thus making it cheaper in terms of human resources, there will be opportunities when it comes to offering custom development, software and services to sectors in society where it was pretty much an obscure idea due to costs. Small business who would otherwise rely on convoluted, inefficient workflows from non-specialized software given their needs, will be able to pay a developer who can provide them with custom tools and services. This is basically new opportunities for a huge number of people in the industry in both sides: developers and people who need them. Small analogy but this can be extrapolated to so many areas. You get the idea.