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Nobody knows how to build with AI yet

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aprilthird2021 ◴[] No.44616732[source]
Eh, idk. First of all, the article is really wordy to say very few things. That just frustrated me a bit.

Second of all, it's easy to fart out some program in a few days vibe coding. How will that fare as more and more features need to be added on? We all used to say "Dropbox that's just FTP wrapped in a nice UI anyone can make that". This protocollie project seems to be a documentation viewer / postman for MCP. Which is cool, but is it something that would have taken a competent dev months to build? Probably not. And eventually the actual value of such things is the extensibility and integrations with various things like corporate SAML etc.

Will the vibe code projects of today be extensible like that, enough to grab market share vs the several similar versions and open source versions anyone can make in a few days, as the author suggests? It can be hard to extend a codebase you don't understand because you didn't write...

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1. nojito ◴[] No.44617171[source]
>Which is cool, but is it something that would have taken a competent dev months to build? Probably not.

Right...but it exists today. The days of wondering "should I spend time building this" are gone.

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2. aprilthird2021 ◴[] No.44634770[source]
The very next sentence of mine

> And eventually the actual value of such things is the extensibility and integrations with various things like corporate SAML etc.

I could make a Dropbox clone by hand in a weekend. I could make one with AI in a few hours. Neither will be valuable like Dropbox because the value is the hard stuff that I have yet to see proof AI can do