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> dynamic websites (with user registration, dashboards, integrations with third-party services, etc.) What do you think a CMS is?
by utopiah 5mo ago
> dynamic websites (with user registration, dashboards, integrations with third-party services, etc.)
What do you think a CMS is?
- ElProlactin 5mo agoI'm not trying to get into a semantic argument. By one definition, almost any web application can be considered a CMS. I'll reiterate my point: tech-savvy non-engineers are using AI to build the kind of dynamic web applications that many engineers don't want to believe can be built by non-engineers using AI. One marketer I know built a sales-related application for a niche industry with Claude Code and and has been able to attract a handful of paying subscribers in just a few months. I'm sure an experienced US or Europe-based freelance developer would have charged tens of thousands of dollars to build something similar, and an "agency/shop" double that. And I'm not sure anything they would have built would have been significantly "better".
- utopiah 5mo agoI'll reiterate my point too then: yes, and that's not new. There are always engineers selling to tech-savvy non-engineers tools transforming a service based on expertise to a product.
- ElProlactin 5mo agoIf you think what AI is enabling, and how it's actually being used by tech-savvy non-engineers, is "not new", carry on. The AI "hype" is the perfect example of how people see what they want to see, on both sides.
- LtWorf 5mo agoIt's so funny to read these things. Thanks to AI people can do so many things. I mean they could do them also in the 90s with microsoft access and a bit of clicking and copy pasting. But now it costs 10000x more so it's better.
- utopiah 5mo agoRight? It's like suddenly people discovered that tools can embody expertise. That's literally what we've been doing for ... our entire existence as a species.