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I actually think many of these ideas are great, and they are technically correct and skillfully executed. So what's wrong with them? Is it the generic AI-slop taste? Or that there's no need for them? Are they bad, or are they useless (or both)?

What do all those failure modes have in common?

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That's very kind of you to say, but I can't say that it's _mine_. I don't feel a sense of achievement or ownership over them. They're not exactly what I envisioned. It feels like I used a Wordpress Theme generator, tweaked some sliders, and published it.

Compared to hand-coded projects, these make me feel like a fraud. A fake. A cheat.

I understand the feeling, and definitely share it sometimes. Feeling like we're losing expertise and ownership of our work sucks!

Maybe programming is just not an intellectually satisfying vocation anymore; but whichever format your ideas will take in the future, please don't stop having them and working on them! That would be such a waste

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