No doubt the headline's claim is true, but Claude just wrote a working MCP serving up the last 10 years of my employer's work product. For $13 in api credits.
While technically capable of building it on my own, development is not my day job and there are enough dumb parts of the problem my p(success) hand-writing it would have been abysmal.
With rose-tinted glasses on, maybe LLM's exponentially expand the amount of software written and the net societal benefit of technology.
I think the responses to your comment show the whirlwind of 'wtf?' confronting any programmer contemplating front end development for the first time.
What you wrote is probably true (and the one "see how far you can get in react only" comment is probably a decent path, but the landscape is overwhelming.
While technically capable of building it on my own, development is not my day job and there are enough dumb parts of the problem my p(success) hand-writing it would have been abysmal.
With rose-tinted glasses on, maybe LLM's exponentially expand the amount of software written and the net societal benefit of technology.