It's not that easy. I mentor at hackathons. Early on, even with GPT-4, lots of people thought the key was thinking up good ideas and getting LLMs to build them.

It's not that easy. I mentor at hackathons. Early on, even with GPT-4, lots of people thought the key was thinking up good ideas and getting LLMs to build them. Most still didn't get their apps up by day 2. There's definitely a baseline of skill. It certainly helps with deployment though, especially things like why import vs require, where to find the API keys, which class to look inside, and so on. I would say we're twice as productive now. If it took you 3 days to do hello world, it would take maybe 1 now. You definitely still need to read the docs. AI is just great at telling you which docs to read. But it may lead you astray if you choose not to. Another gotcha is that LLM is the average of the above average skill. It sounds funky but basically GPT still recommends a 2018 stack for Android, which is far outdated, even though it knows the 2024 stuff. We see people trying it in interviews, and many end up giving feedback that they wish they didn't use it.