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> There are tons of apps I could build in 30 minutes using a development environment I'm familiar and productive with already, but LLMs don't have that restriction.

Here's the thing - if you never learned to use $FOO, it is closed off as an option to you forever, even with LLM help.

I'm going to be a lot better at designing personal-use software via an LLM than someone who doesn't have 30 years of experience writing software for money, because I learned things (like wish) which can be leveraged via LLMs to produce the output artefact faster and more reliably.

For personal-use software, if all you know is HTML, CSS and Javascript, then all you can produce is electron-based crap as the smallest unit of software. Someone like me, OTOH, can produce small and tight software because I programmed in Delphi (now Lazarus), Qt, Tcl/Tk, etc in the past, and they are still viable.

I recall seeing an electron-based vibed app recently on a ShowHN that, I thought at the time, could have be completed using a small bash script calling Zenity.

The problem is what happens when people like myself (and yourself, too) are no longer around?

All the software is going to converge towards being crap; if there is no one telling the LLM that a specific task can be completed using Lazarus with zero 3rd party deps, all tasks are going to get completed using Rust with a few thousand create deps talking to an electron-based app that has a few thousand JS deps (and maybe some CSS frameworks thrown in for good measure).