[yakkomajuri]

I used to believe in the use case of projects like these but I think AI is making their case significantly weaker. The idea of "hey, you're a backend dev and can just quickly generate a UI in your own language" is quite a valid one, but these days you spend a a couple hours on ChatGPT and get a pretty decent UI out of it, without needing to really know frontend.

I'm far from being one of those people that's like all in on AI, but I've definitely been super impressed with its abilities to generate basic boilerplate code when you're working on project from scratch.

[mleonhard]

Most of the cost of a software project is from ongoing maintenance. When we make it easy to write the first version and make maintenance harder, the total cost of the project goes up.

Projects like FastUI allow maintenance of a project with fewer skills, directly reducing the cost of maintenance: owning teams spend less time learning and maintaining their skills and there are fewer bugs due to engineers making mistakes because of low skill-level in a technology.

Also, projects like FastUI make the project's tech stack much simpler. Simplicity helps reliability, incident resolution, security, testing, adding features, removing dead code, refactoring, etc. Highly-productive teams apply these ideas and keep their systems as simple as possible. As tools like FastUI mature, they will become standard in healthy engineering orgs.