It sounds like a first april entry.

Things such as:

"They’re far from perfect, but claude and codex gave me the leverage I desperately needed."

Yikes. I most definitely don't want AI to take away abilities.

I do kind of approach web development differently. Rather than static HTML and CSS for the most part (which I, of course, also use), ruby acts as primary wrapper and I treat HTML tags like objects as well as everything else. So I kind of describe a web page on a (one level higher) layer. It is not 100% perfect as some things are messy (also due to legacy, some of the code I started writing 20 years ago, updated some of it but other parts need to be upated too, which is only possible when time permits); but even with this in mind, I simply could never go back to using the web with HTML and CSS as a primary means to describe web-related content. It would just be very inefficient use of my time.

> When AI generates code, I know when it’s good and when it’s not.

Ok - now I know this is a first april entry indeed.

> There’s mental space for creativity in building software again.

Which, of course, would not make any sense. Now the article is a first april entry, but if we were to assume he would write this for real, why would AI have taken away creativity? People can still think on their own. In theory they could have the great ideas - and AI autogenerates all necessary code. So this use case would not be that terrible IF it were to work perfectly well. I don't see it work that way right now. AI often just is a mega-spammer everywhere. It spams out crap, some of which is useful, but the default is crap.

> AI really has made web development fun again.

Not really. But I also think that the whole web-stack should be simplified and streamlined. Instead what I see is the opposite happening. Complexity rises. And JavaScript sucks so much it is really unbearable. You can do many useful things in JavaScript, but as a language it is a true clown language. I used to think I dislike PHP the most, but I no longer use PHP yet I have to use JavaScript. Every second line of code I ask myself why this joke could have ever become popular. Even Java evolved and got better. JavaScript appears to have gotten more stupid over the years.