Ironically I'm thinking the exact opposite. Now I can build stuff without dealing with the chaos in the frontend frameworks ecosystem...

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webdevver 3 days ago | parent [-]

theres a fun "K-shaped" optionality with LLMs: on one hand, its possible to deal with otherwise large API surfaces.

but on the other hand, you can 'go oldschool' but with the hot new tools: install ubuntu, launch claude with yolo mode, and just tell it what you want as if it were a sysadmin from the early 2000s/late 90s.

both roads very reasonable, but that the old way of doing things is new again is interesting.

	▲	simonw 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Yes! I've been having a great time prompting "vanilla JavaScript, no react" and building neat things that use browser APIs exclusively (including modern stuff like web audio APIs and Web Components and WASM) because I don't need to learn a bunch of boilerplate stuff first anymore. Feels like coding in the 200xs and I'm enjoying every minute of it.
	▲	int_19h 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		And it's not an either-or. For example, I found that a quick way to get a web frontend for a console app is to prompt it to turn that into a CGI app. But said CGI app can still serve HTML with fancy JS and what not, and use modern frameworks for that if desired.