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What an electrifying time to be alive! The last era that felt even remotely this dynamic was during the explosive rise of JavaScript frameworks—when it seemed like a new one dropped every quarter. Back then, though, the vibe was more like, “Ugh, another framework to learn?” Fast forward to now, and innovation is sprinting forward again—but this time, it feels like a thrilling ride we can’t wait to be part of.

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I know what you mean in terms of frantic pace of "new stuff" coming out, but I winced at the comparison of innovation in AI to mere web development tooling.

True, I only compared the speed but not the vibe

Yes. LLMs and latent spaces are vastly more interesting.

I lived through the explosion of JavaScript frameworks and this feels way bigger to me. For me at least it feels closer to the rise of the early internet.

Reminds me of 1996.

I used to feel dismayed that I missed that era of the internet and technology (I'm 19). IRC, forums, work-in-progress gifs on personal websites, etc.

I still wish I were there for that, but I'm glad I get to be here for LLMs and the intelligence explosion. I have absolutely no idea what the world will look like in a few years. It certainly isn't the certain high-paying tech job in a largely static world that it looked like a few years ago.

But whatever happens, it's going to be interesting!

I wonder whether I'm spending my time optimally, working on a little SAAS that happens to use LLMs as a downstream commodity, contributing through a niche benchmark.

I agree I also lived through that time and you saw stuff like jQuery be supercede by marionette and backbone js maybe ember when it came out. But those were all kind of flavors of the same thing, ultimately speaking. With these new models coming out it seems like every time there's a new model it unlocks a gigantic New branch of application type

It'll be worse actually, with all the vibe coders out there: https://www.reddit.com/r/vibecoding/

Comparing JS frameworks to LLMs is like comparing a bike to a spaceship—completely different beasts.

Did “A new javascript framework de jour every quarter” ever stop happening?

No, but apparently people stop caring and chasing the wagon.

or decided to increase consistency at some point. It will be interesting to see other generations approach to changes.

Maybe it will actually slow down now that the webshit crowd are increasingly relying on AI copilots. You can't vibe code using a framework that the model knows nothing about.

yet

Oh definitely.

New frameworks still come out, but they are not accompanied by the "and we must all now switch to this" sense that existed back in, say, 2014.

on the other hand, i have started getting LLM fatigue. Every time I read one of these announcements, I go like "oh no, not another LLM model. When is this bubble gonna burst?"

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