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It's a really really well written article, I wish more people wrote like this, instead of lazy, tired discourses on frontend hell. I did not dive too deep in hi
by locallost 2y ago
It's a really really well written article, I wish more people wrote like this, instead of lazy, tired discourses on frontend hell. I did not dive too deep in his examples on Svelte as I don't use it, but I understood the gist of it. And I agree with the conclusion: "...there is a tradeoff between doing things for the user, and giving the user agency". There was always something about a lot of developers where they treat the users of their code as incompetent
and unable to get anything done. So they do all sorts of things to make it idiot proof, but this ends up making everything more complex.
The take about AI is also interesting, I didn't think about that before. If AI is now able to generate a lot of code, maybe being able to quickly understand that code is more important than that code being clever.