It's a tool for building things. I can build those things equally well with or without it, maybe saving some time with it (arguable)), but I'm not dependent on it.
No, I'd posit the average developer who pulls in hundreds of deps but now uses LLMs to effectively replace them can not build things equally well without either.
Of course most devs lie to ourselves because of our ego that pulling in deps is /just/ a time-saving measure, but of course we know there are some incredibly high quality libraries and frameworks that we don't have the skills or experience to replicate to the same level
It's a tool for building things. I can build those things equally well with or without it, maybe saving some time with it (arguable)), but I'm not dependent on it.
No, I'd posit the average developer who pulls in hundreds of deps but now uses LLMs to effectively replace them can not build things equally well without either.
Of course most devs lie to ourselves because of our ego that pulling in deps is /just/ a time-saving measure, but of course we know there are some incredibly high quality libraries and frameworks that we don't have the skills or experience to replicate to the same level
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