[someothherguyy]

> If you think about code as a means to an end, and focus on the end

The problem with this is that you will never be able to modify the code in a meaningful way after it crosses a threshold, so either you'll have a prompt only modification ability, or you will just have to rewrite things from scratch.

I wrote my first application ever (equivalent to a education CMS today) in the very early 2000s with barely any notion of programming fundamentals. It was probably a couple hundred thousand lines of code by the time I abandoned it.

I wrote most of it in HTML, JS, ASP and SQL. I was in high school. I didn't know what common data structures were. I once asked a professor when I got into late high school "why arrays are necessary in loops".

We called this cookbook coding back in the day.

I was pretty much laughed at when I finally showed people my code, even though it was a completely functional application. I would say an LLM probably can do better, but it really doesn't seem like something we should be chasing.