The Illusion of Building I keep seeing posts like this…
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The Illusion of Building
I keep seeing posts like this going viral: "I built a mobile app with no coding experience." "I cloned Spotify in a weekend."
Building an app and engineering a system are two different activities, but people keep confusing them. AI has made the first dramatically cheaper. It hasn't touched the second.
I spent some time reflecting on what's actually happening here. What "building software" means, what it doesn't, and why everyone is asking the wrong question.
#programming #dev #technology
I keep seeing posts like this going viral: "I built a mobile app with no coding experience." "I cloned Spotify in a weekend."
Building an app and engineering a system are two different activities, but people keep confusing them. AI has made the first dramatically cheaper. It hasn't touched the second.
I spent some time reflecting on what's actually happening here. What "building software" means, what it doesn't, and why everyone is asking the wrong question.
#programming #dev #technology
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