I disagree. It very much looks like AI. In fact, this is close to something a good model will few- or even one-shot.

I don’t like to say it. I am not proud of it but I like to be rational. We are outgunned and we are not going to make it by ignoring the obvious.

The world did indeed change. My passion projects of before 2024 look like quaint relics from a distant past and they in fact are. Most of them will be one-shotted by quantized open models running locally in 20mins whereas I took weeks.

Doing things “by hand” is as much a waste of time or perhaps even more so than coding your apps in handcrafted assembly. It’s beautiful and I did it and perhaps someday, when retired probably, will do it again if at all possible but it makes absolutely zero sense to do it if you take your time seriously and are not madly in love with code itself which I suspect most are not because.. why would you. Code is not the product. The product is the product.