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I find this to be a bizarre sentiment. It’s an artifact that exists. The chances of me making this by hand are 0. This would be a full time job for 3 years to research and build this. For 10 people. And it would have to charge a ton of money to access in that case.

by flexagoon2 days ago|

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> This would be a full time job for 3 years to research and build this. For 10 people.

No it wouldn't.

by stavros2 days ago|

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He did do it himself.

If you meant "without AI", then it would have never been done in the first place, so you can choose your preference there.

by noduerme1 days ago|

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If he paid the same amount of money to an offshore worker to build it, would you say he'd done it himself?

by stavros1 days ago|

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Yes? A product designer does make a product, even though they don't write any of the code.

by noduerme1 days ago|

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Perhaps we have a different definition of doing something yourself.

by stavros1 days ago|

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If you write an application, but use libraries, did you do it yourself?

by noduerme14 hours ago|

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This is ridiculous. If you are capable of editing the libraries when necessary, and you don't ask someone else to do it for you, then yes. If you can't do it yourself and need to ask someone to do it for you, then no.

Asking for something out of your head, whether you're requesting a custom sandwich at a drive-thru restaurant or you're the project manager of a software company, is not the same as making it yourself. If it were, then you wouldn't need to drive through the restaurant or be a mid-level managerial parasite to get what you envisioned.

We should still judge people's skills on the merits of what they can create themselves. I've never had much interest in people who just ordered things up from their underlings, and claimed they were the creators. That's stolen merit, if you ask me. Show me someone who can create a piece of code from scratch, and then we can evaluate how well they leveraged an AI or a team of people to do the next piece of code for them. Not every piece of code has to be written from scratch, but it needs to be understood. You seemed to assert that this project would've taken many people many years or it wouldn't otherwise have been written. That's not true. It could be written in a week by a competent human. The fact that it wasn't could be a clue that it doesn't add value to begin with, which in turn implies that its output may be unreliable (even if it were useful).