I can't help but feel that far too many intelligent people, including many here, are wasting too much of their precious time, skill, potential, etc. on questions like this. Remember a few years ago when we just used to make useful software? Now we are consumed with discussions about the AI flavour of the week and trying really hard to prove the usefulness of things that we will soon forget when the next shiny one comes.

Web3 and JavaScript frameworks never had the nerd-sniping power of the AI ecosystem. I'm not denying the usefulness and potential of the space, and the achievements of its current champions, but the degree with which it has consumed discussion and productivity in the tech space is worrying.

This article would be wildly interesting with the opposite headline, but instead it simply states what many of us would assume based on experience.

it's a distributed evolution occurring right now, and lots of people replicate the same things, so its useful to be able to point to some things as a waste of time

that being said, I think you're right that all of this will be a moot point in like 2 weeks or 2 months, when the next AI model is released that addresses this specific friction

and yeah, that's sad. there are a lot of people in companies being instructed to pivot to skills, and then before they can launch or sell their procedurally generated moat, the next AI model will procedurally generate skills better

nobody knows what to do for guaranteed food and shelter so they're grasping