[apsurd]

My friend made a great comparison that seems to agree with your take: chatGPT for coding is like when ruby on rails came out. Or wordpress. felt magical and boosted (a certain kind of) productivity through the roof.

We don't think of rails as the second coming though.

same with code editors. of course a rails for all of code is cool. but iono, it's a code editor. i still use sublime.

[bastawhiz]

I'd maybe make the analogy that it's like the first ORM. Sure, you could write your own DB queries, but it just does what you want, and it's usually right.

Were ORMs the second coming? Meh. But it's arguable that they're still immensely powerful and useful and the way people write apps that interface with an RDBMS is permanently changed forevermore.

[ravetcofx]

How did WordPress boost productivity? Fussing with hosting, CMS, plug-ins is a mess. I just went back to good old hand written HTML with pico.css. Got my site down from 8mb to 100kb

[jasongill]

Most people cannot write good old hand written HTML; when WordPress came out and picked up stream, it was the biggest thing to hit the web hosting industry since FrontPage.