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I understand there's a lot of hype around "build apps quickly without coding". I have many doubts as to the validity of the Youtube speed runs which depict some
by jmathai 2y ago
I understand there's a lot of hype around "build apps quickly without coding". I have many doubts as to the validity of the Youtube speed runs which depict someone actually doing it. Cursor is a developer productivity tool - not a developer replacement tool.
I'm working on something which lets non-technical people create applications and it works. A design decision has been to never expose the code or infrastructure - meaning it has be a bit more rigorous about what it gives the user.
It works better than I expected in many cases - but it's still very constrained. I see the same issues in products like Bolt and Replit Agent. That doesn't mean it doesn't work or that it's not useful - but I think there's a lot of marketing or influencer content that's a bit misleading w.r.t. current state of things.
I have a few videos in our documentation of how it works including how to fix bugs without having access to the code [1].
I do think it's possible. It will only get better and do more and more of what developers do today .... faster and cheaper than developers. I suggest looking at this as a time of opportunity to identify what does that free developers up to do instead of a time of fear that developers are all going to be unemployed.
[1] https://withlattice.com/documentation#nav-fix-bugs https://withlattice.com/documentation#nav-fix-bugs