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by buzzbyjool 415 days ago
You’re absolutely right that there’s a spectrum between deep applications and throwaway code. But I wouldn’t place what we’re doing in the Power Apps / low-code / Power BI category.

The systems we’re building with LLMs (at Easylab AI) aren’t quick prototypes or business dashboards — they’re fully functioning SaaS platforms with scalable backends, custom business logic, API orchestration, test coverage, and long-term maintainability. The difference is: they’re authored through agents, not typed from scratch.

And to your point about design sensitivity and architecture becoming scarce — I couldn’t agree more.

When LLMs handle 80% of the syntactic work, what’s left is the hard stuff: system thinking, naming, sequencing, interfaces, data flows. That’s exactly where our team shifted: less “builders,” more “designers of builders.” It’s not easier work — it’s just a different level of abstraction.

Thanks for the reply, sincerely. It’s good to talk about this without defaulting to hype or fear.

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I wanted to thank you as well. I replied you somewhere else in this thread with some more questions if you feel like.