As the market gets flooded with AI-generated MVPs, the products that will stand out are those built by developers who:
Take pride in their craft
Care about the little details
Focus on the full user experience
Build for the edge cases
Create truly self-serve experiences
The irony? AI tools might actually enable this renaissance. By handling the routine coding tasks, they free up developers to focus on what matters most - creating software that truly serves and delights users.
I’m agreeing with everything they’re saying, but then they bring in “routine coding tasks”.
These don’t exist for developers who take pride in their craft. That’s like going up to an artist and telling them they could color in their blue sky with a paint roller. Yeah, they could, but no one would want to look at it, much like no one wants to look at code that’s not very intentional about how it’s written.
Sure, you typically have some boilerplate for converting between different data formats, but my head is racing even while writing that, how I could eliminate more of this boilerplate. Because no one wants to look at boilerplate, even if you’re the fastest at producing it.
Man, this section just kills me:
I’m agreeing with everything they’re saying, but then they bring in “routine coding tasks”.
These don’t exist for developers who take pride in their craft. That’s like going up to an artist and telling them they could color in their blue sky with a paint roller. Yeah, they could, but no one would want to look at it, much like no one wants to look at code that’s not very intentional about how it’s written.
Sure, you typically have some boilerplate for converting between different data formats, but my head is racing even while writing that, how I could eliminate more of this boilerplate. Because no one wants to look at boilerplate, even if you’re the fastest at producing it.