People were already building cool side projects to completion and giving them love before AI.

You get downvoted for being weirdly ecstatic about AI "enabling" things that were already possible, while not caring about the human element that AI lacks.

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echelon a day ago | parent [-]

People that say "things [...] were already possible" don't dream enough.

Maybe you were born a few decades too late. I feel I was born (a few decades?) too early.

I want the world with cures for cancer, holodecks, brain uploads, immortality, jet packs, surfing on Titan, etc.

I legitimately enjoy the future we're hurtling towards. It's the most exciting thing that has ever happened to our species. I hated the world where "Apple iPhones" were the pinnacle of human achievement.

We might be able to vibe engineer our own iPhones in a few years. That'll be fun.

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krapp a day ago | parent [-]

But building a website like the one posted here was already possible. you compared it to the early "indie" web.

There is literally nothing about generating websites with AI that merits being called "the most exciting thing that has ever happened to our species."

FFS we've stood on the moon.

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echelon a day ago | parent [-]

> was already possible.

The fact that people who couldn't program can now build utilities and automations for themselves is beyond remarkable.

And for those of us who can engineer, we're making 10x, 20x what we were before. I'm filling my life with all kinds of fun side projects, toys, games, utility software, automations. I don't look at libraries and software packages anymore - I just build what I need.

This is like 3D printing for software.

I've built my own SRS software, my own music library, my own project management software, several agents, a video editor, a few toy video games, home automation software ... and I've done this all in a month.

I am so excited about everything I'm going to be building. Time was a limit before. There is no limit now.

> FFS we've stood on the moon.

And we slept on that for nearly 60 years. We're about to build cities there. Finally.

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		> And we slept on that for nearly 60 years. We're about to build cities there. Finally. We're really, really not.
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		>The fact that people who couldn't program can now build utilities and automations for themselves is beyond remarkable. Learning to program has never been easier or more accessible. Being able to build a website has been accessible to non-techies for years. I'll admit using an AI is convenient but "beyond remarkable" is pushing it. If anything it's a bit of a tragedy. In exchange for that convenience people are buying into a closed, third party mass surveillance infrastructure generating code they can't understand, can't repair, can't edit or redistribute. From a FOSS point of view AI is objectively worse than what we had. And that's not even getting into the flood of slop and disinformation destroying the web. >I've built my own SRS software, my own music library, my own project management software, several agents, a video editor, a few toy video games, home automation software ... and I've done this all in a month. I can't imagine you needed all of this done within a month and couldn't find existing solutions for most of it. It seems more like you're addicted than being productive. And I still don't see the line between you vibe-coding a productivity app something something holograms and brain uploads and surfing on Titan. >And we slept on that for nearly 60 years. We're about to build cities there. Finally. No, we aren't. We're no closer to than than we were 60 years ago. If you think Elon Musk is actually going to accomplish anything of the sort I think you're bound for disappointment.