While it's impressive, I agree that it tends to make over the top comments or reactions about everything. It could probably make a Keurig machine sound like a revolutionary coffee maker.

Did you take a look at the code generated? Was it well designed and amenable to extension / building on top of?

I've been impressed with the ability to generate "throw away" code for testing out an idea or rapidly prototyping something.

100% this.

- "There are thousands of highly qualified tech workers currently working as Starbucks baristas who feel the same way."

Do you have a source for this data?

Highly talented software engineers are still hard to find. If you find one, pay them well and do everything you can to retain them.

Some people care about highly talented software engineers.

But not all corporations do. Many just want somebody to make the app go boop. Or the website show a bigger picture.

Rhetorically, Wouldn't it be nice for those people if there were Fair rules that protected against abusive hiring, abusive firing, abusive management, which can wreck a person's career trajectory.

We technology people invest our brains into specialties. We solve the specific problems of a business. There is no one size fits all solution in our industry. So as we specialize for each job, if that job terminated us unfairly, that would just suck. So Unions may help balance the scales when working for the powerful corporation.

This is what I preach to my kids. Get to work, live at home, save everything and invest. There is a huge difference between kids attitudes these days and those of the gen-x crowd. I loved my first jobs, they were so fun and people treated me very well. My children have dipped into the work force a bit and found it very nasty and hostile across various industries. My son trained as a machinist. A job that is very well suited to him. He asked for PPE (respirator, gloves) at his first job and was educating himself on the chemicals used in his area. After incurring chemical burns and respuratory issues he had them put the labels back on the barrels and again requested PPE. They threw him out on his ass, but not before attempting to humiliate and denigrate him. He is traumatized now and seeking disability benefits from the government. I don't have much to stand on when trying to convince him to keep trying.

> This is what I preach to my kids. Get to work, live at home, save everything and invest.

What are you telling them to invest in?

Strange to read, not my experience at all.

> it's about your rank in the social circles

It's among the most meritocratic I have a view into (from conversations with friends in.. mechanical engineering, entrepreneurship, academia, nonprofit, sales, education, ..)

All of those things are based overwhelmingly on social circles and politics. Not merit. If the world were based on merit we wouldn't be afraid of free markets and we wouldn't have mega corps. Yet, here we are.

> it's about your rank in the social circles

How is this relevant to programming?

You're not getting a job in programming without a social in. The people hiring you don't understand the job. That's what happens when things become big, bloated, and need to be popped. Tech has control of all modern nations down to the military and infrastructure. Nobody is tangibly regulating and pushing back on their power.

Planned by whom?

The tech cartel faang and adjacent. People talk to each other.

Them >_<

I'm screwed.

Snot good

I'm not having much success with this beyond very basic components. I think I'd have more success iteratively working with ChatGPT or Claude directly, and then pasting the code into jsfiddle, pastebin, or replit to see the results and iterate.

I understand your point, iterating with ChatGPT or Claude can be a great approach for many cases. Our focus with Webcrumbs is to speed up front-end component creation, especially for those looking for a quicker, more direct solution. But of course, there's always room for improvement! If you have specific suggestions, I'd be happy to hear them.

When exporting the code, all the field values are hard coded in the react/html and no easy way to get data from a rest/api.

Maybe i am missing something. I tried the trading template

Also: BUG report.

I asked for a complex field change. This gave me an orange error message "failed try again". But now there is no abort/cancel button. Only a retry button.

Good luck

I’m begging you to try out cursor and sonnet as the model.

It is incredible, and it genuinely feels like magic when it comes to codebase context.

Thank you, great idea! have you joined at the discord channel?

In this case is it not faster to just code the component yourself?

They're not saying finance a phone. They're saying $1000 is not that much for a device you use throughout every waking hour for several years. The monthly framing helps understand cost as a rate, as we experience value as a rate.

People making an average hourly don't think of things that way. Paying $28/month for a phone provides much more liquidity for the unexpected, when the other option is spending over 25% of your months income, you're SOL if your car breaks for whatever reason, or you get a flat tire, or your water bill was unusually high.

Something something cheap boot vs. expensive boot something something…

I assume, then, of course, that you bought (or would buy) your house in cash only? After all, "If you don't have the money to pay for it upfront, you can't afford it. Full stop."

OP wasn’t talking about a loan payment.

"it's just made me feel like the computer is actually working for and with me and even that alone can be enough to get me motivated and accomplish what I set out to do."

This is a great way to describe what I've been feeling / experiencing as well.

Just an update on my initial impressions of Claude 3.5 Sonnet. It's a better programmer than I am in Python; that's not saying much, but this is now two nights in a row I've been impressed with what I've created with it.