Surprised that Smithsonian magazine makes such an awful website. Every minute, new ads are loaded, shifting the text up and down, making it hard to read.
Does the writer understand that for every developer who burns all tokens, there are many people who subscribe just to join the AI revolution, but only ask a couple of questions a day?
The article started with showing how complex the frontend is. And then moves the complexity to the backend, with tools that aren’t well supported and putting extra load on the server. For some applications, this is a good solution, for most, however, it’s not.