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If you take a look around x, reddit or linkedin nowadays it seems full of non tech people or parents proud of their children making "complete functioning apps" without any coding. Usually they're nothing more than specialized todo lists or calendaring apps for keeping track of some habits. Do we really need all those apps? I'm worried that if I have a good idea and it happens I can execute it well, then the app would be buried in the millions of "v0" apps out there. And no, Apple won't review them all, it's impossible... maybe an AI will lol

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This is exactly how I felt as a photographer when smart phones took over the world 15 years ago. I try to remind myself that democratization is good, even if it isn’t necessarily pretty.

Art was already democratic. Now the megacorps are inserting themselves in the process and using “democratization” to sell the idea back to people.

That doesn’t mean good art is impossible with, say, an iPhone’s digital camera and its AI-powered capabilities. Nor will it mean LLM-powered tools can’t be helpful to writers or other workers. But all creative pursuits — programming included — are already democratic without Apple or Google or whatever corporation butting in looking for more rent.

Despite not really liking AI-generated content very much myself I think it is quite neat that everyone can now have small apps that precisely cater to their needs.

What they need? More todo apps? Or simple crud apps that they could have hacked together with no code tools for years? If so it speaks long dinstances about the current state of software

At the end of the day, most consumer software boils down to simple CRUD apps with various skins. Sure people have been able to make those for years but it was still time consuming to wrangle the no code tools. Now people can do it in an hour or two with simple English instructions.

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