(i assume these are good places to look for it though! just not sure i'd call it a repro unless it actually called react)

and i don't think calling it "dumbing down" is a good way to respond to the OP post which actually describes a very specific thing very well. this doesn't engage with the post at all actually

like i think we can say both "tool X makes it possible for Y who could never do Z before to do quite a range of Z" and "tool X isn't as open source / accessible as it should be yet" and words don't capture this nuance very well

the other secret is turning off your "this would be too hard" instinct. i keep thinking "ahh i won't do X, this is too hard" and then i just ask claude to prototype it, and actually it's not complex at all, i was just missing a bunch of glue domain knowledge. and there we have a skeleton running

example of technical curation: - claude wrote a test suite - but i gave it the shape of the test suite (test queries + actions, not actual UI) - claude added optimistic DB updates - but i made it rewrite the test suite to verify ingesting PDS writes from each test gets DB to same optimistic state

the secret to creating something interesting with LLMs is in flexing your curatorial muscle. once you get into that groove, it's really unlike any technology or workflow from before. the LLM output is an exponent of your vision and curatorial ability (technical judgement is also a form of curation)

> LLMs have, along with their many other direct and indirect societal effects, are democratizing software development in a way nothing since Apple's Hypercard really has. yes 100%. i'm experiencing the same effect on myself although i *am* a dev — sidetrail.app is very much a Claude collaboration View quoted note →

maybe this still doesn’t make sense, idk. i’m just saying atproto by its nature is the most “shareable” kind of database because everyone who cares about some lexicon needs essentially the same table

here's how i learned hiragana learn hiragana

the once it’s polished i don’t think it will matter that much. like have you used google closure compiler? it reads insanely complex if you look at its source. but like… it works so well that who cares? it’s fine.