It's impressive. I want to be a doubter and say I feel like it just shows what you can do with tailwind/typescript in getting a nice UI out, but it really would be genuinely useful for some cases.
The problem I have with it is that how do you get out of a corner with it? Once I start having problems with the application -- I asked it to generate a search engine for different websites, but one of the API endpoints wasn't working. It kept trying over and over again but failed to get it working.
It's - like other attempts I've had with AI - more frustrating to work with. It'll say "I fixed this" and then have a problem where it created more problems with what it's fixing. I thought it finally worked 100% but it just made it look better by breaking something else without actually fixing the issue.
Admittedly, it took what might have been a day's work into a couple hours, but now I have a chunk of code that I don't understand and will be deliberately harder to understand than if I wrote it myself.
It still feels like I'm trying to coax an intern into working a project, rather than having an application that actually does the work for me.
The problem I have with it is that how do you get out of a corner with it? Once I start having problems with the application -- I asked it to generate a search engine for different websites, but one of the API endpoints wasn't working. It kept trying over and over again but failed to get it working.
It's - like other attempts I've had with AI - more frustrating to work with. It'll say "I fixed this" and then have a problem where it created more problems with what it's fixing. I thought it finally worked 100% but it just made it look better by breaking something else without actually fixing the issue.
Admittedly, it took what might have been a day's work into a couple hours, but now I have a chunk of code that I don't understand and will be deliberately harder to understand than if I wrote it myself.
It still feels like I'm trying to coax an intern into working a project, rather than having an application that actually does the work for me.