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Ecommerce is close second
It's like saying if you don't learn to use a smartphone you'll be left behind. Even babies can use it now.
I also heard "I see the issue now" so many times because it missed or misunderstood something very simple.
>That's not to say SWEs don't have work to do, but writing syntax directly is not it.
Why would this be disturbing for SWEs? Writing syntax was never the end goal. It was just a core we couldn't without. It was always about the intent of the code.
I attribute that to the holidays. Many people finally had the time to goof around with these tools. At least that's how it happened to me.
It was an incredible experience. I implemented a few features quickly and in a much better way than I could otherwise. Realized how many tiny holes my app had and a few suboptimal patterns I was using. Made me worry about my career, initially, but after using for a while, I now see it as going up the chain of abstraction. Only thing I'm not doing is writing code by hand. Im still having to do everything else like thinking about architecture and the big picture, keeping it dry and maintainable, debugging, etc - but with a lot of help from LLMs. Sometimes it's 10x and sometimes you wasted sometime, you know, just like how using packages made us go up the chain.
Looks great BTW. Installed.
Few years ago, I built a throw-away offline-first and minimalist time tracking app similar to this.