> maybe my project is a toy (it is) or you think it's poor quality (it's not) but i'm able to do things in minutes that used to take days
Just consider what this will be like as it gets better? Remember we've had working coding agents for less than a year.
People are excited not because it's fun to fight with the damn things. It's not! We're excited despite that!
I remember my old Nokia 6682. It was an early smartphone that ran S60 and I had a screen reader, basic IM client, and a few other apps including a web browser installed. It was awkward to use. It was frustrating. The connection was dog-slow. And it was cool as hell--a little slice of the future in my pocket.
I remember my Windows 98 (first edition) machine with JAWS for Windows 3.2, trying to use the early web; before they had the concept of the virtual cursor. Before any of this accessibility stuff was at all standardized, when we got what we could by scraping screen buffers and injecting into other processes. And damn it was so cool. So obviously the future that we put up with the jank.
Here we are again. Annoying to use? Often! Remarkable? Hell yeah!
Except this time we have people combing through every sentence to extract only the negative ones from a 40kb success story--I do at least hope you used an LLM for this.