It reminds me of Drupal circa 2009.
I was thinking the other day how much better Drupal is. Want a online store? A few commands and bam, online store. Want a newspaper? A few commands and bam, newspaper with publishing workflows, user management, and caching.
Using coding agents isn't much different. There are several things the models are trained to do very well and a few commands will get something. If the developer wants to move the project beyond that, it requires domain knowledge and a lot of hacking.
I wonder if the coding agents will move towards the Drupal model where they create interchangeable components with common interfaces. Like Drupal the coding agents never provide anything truly inovative that hasn't been done before.
> If the developer wants to move the project beyond that, it requires domain knowledge and a lot of hacking.
Reminds me a bit of this blog post[0].
I remember doing a Drupal project around that time and being astonished at how powerful it was.
I also remember feeling more like a technician connecting various components than like a software engineer, writing code.
I totally saw the value for the client but I really disliked my experience, so I avoided it afterwards.
0: https://www.rickmanelius.com/p/the-website-rfp-and-the-impos...
Drupal and WP etc all have plugins to switch stuff on in minutes, however, customising and making it as your client wants would take a lot of time. WP shops we work with for clients (we need to integrate some times) take weeks to get some plugin to do what they want by adding tags and config options.
It might centralize around a specific framework but I think part of the problem is that people want to generate their own framework or at least not care about what the framework is/does/can do. They treat the LLM as the framework which can be non-deterministic and structureless.