[jaccola]

The obvious pushback to all of the slop is: coding was never hard. Learning resources were abundant and free.

If these people had a burning desire to build things prior to LLMs and couldn’t put in the effort to learn to build them (which is also fun!) then why would they ever put the effort into anything to understand it and make it good??

[layer8]

> coding was never hard. Learning resources were abundant and free.

Just a nitpick regarding “never”: Learning resources weren’t abundant and free 25 years ago, that’s a more recent development.

[skydhash]

Maybe in some parts of the world (including mine). But we haven’t have a lot of computers either. But 25 years ago, there was a lot of textbooks and computers editors like O’Reilly already active. I had the C programming language book (not 25 years ago, but the book is older than that) and you could learn a lot with that one book and codeblocks. Same thing with “The Go Programming Language”, “Learning Perl”, and “Programming Clojure”. You only need one book to get very decent.

[layer8]

True, but books weren’t free. I spent quite some money buying those.

[viking123]

Before steam was already full of games no one cares about or no one plays, like 80% won't make over 20 bucks.

It will be just garbage on top of garbage.

[HPsquared]

The basic "language translation" part was never hard, but design is hard.