> When I don’t have the skill to build a good app, what is my best bet. To hope AI does it for me or to grind and learn? You can do both. I can't design a UI t

> When I don’t have the skill to build a good app, what is my best bet. To hope AI does it for me or to grind and learn? You can do both. I can't design a UI to save my life, but I know how GTK's backend works and I can pick the widgets I like from a gallery: https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/libadwaita/doc/main/widget-gallery.html https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/libadwaita/doc/main/wid... If I can describe the architecture/stack that I want for an app, most AI models can build the desktop app for me. You have to remain conscious of the tools you're using, but AI can produce great boilerplate for this type of rote programming. > Like have you seen cracked coders working, they are like fast apm coders and worlds more accurate then AI. I've worked with 10x engineers before, most of them were not Carmack-level geniuses. They simply understood their stack and stayed laser-focused on the goal. 10xers are impressive because they're specialists, and most of them go back to the 1-2x level if you force them to use technology they don't understand.