[aiisahik]

Anyone who cares about the "craft" and "quality" of frontend or any other domain of programming should LOVE all the LLMs because it actually enables high code quality at very low cost. You can enforce best practices, do full code refactors, write as many tests as you want and you can do it without telling management that you need to stop writing code for 2 weeks for "tech debt". All you need is one guy with a lot of tokens to stay up with a lot of caffeine one night.

This is not the lament of the code getting worse (it's not) but the coders losing the knowledge of how to do it by hand without LLMs. If people really wanted to learn how to do things by hand, they can. In fact the AI is probably going to be infinitely more patient and knowledgable than any senior dev if you really wanna do this by hand. Just turn off the AI's ability to modify the code and just have it give you advice on the side.

The reason why nobody does that anymore is because most engineers work for capitalists not artists. It's the same reason I don't know how to farm my own food or make my own clothes like my ancestors did. Most people do programming because it's a job - not because it's an artistic passion. And that's OK.

[s1ngular1ties]

Amen. I feel like I live in a different world than many of the commenters here. AI has made it such that most code “vibe coded” follows our root architectural practices by default. I couldn’t be more thrilled, and watching how enabled people are with this in their hands is amazing! I feel for the people in the thread who aren’t getting or feeling that experience.