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Developers that can’t see the change are blind.

Just this week, sun-tue. I added a fully functional subscription model to an existing platform, build out a bulk async elasticjs indexing for a huge database and migrated a very large Wordpress website to NextJS. 2.5 days, would have cost me at least a month 2 years ago.

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fxtentacle|1 month ago

To me, this sounds like:

AI is helping me solve all the issues that using AI has caused.

Wordpress has a pretty good export and Markdown is widely supported. If you estimate 1 month of work to get that into NextJS, then maybe the latter is not a suitable choice.

serf|1 month ago

it's wild that somehow with regards to AI conversations lately someone can say "I saved 3 months doing X" and someone can willfully and thoughtfully reply "No you didn't , you're wrong." without hesitation.

I feel bad for AI opponents mostly because it seems like the drive to be against the thing is stronger than the drive towards fact or even kindness.

My .02c: I am saving months of efforts using AI tools to fix old (PRE-AI, PREHISTORIC!) codebases that have literally zero AI technical debt associated to them.

I'm not going to bother with the charts & stats, you'll just have to trust me and my opinion like humans must do in lots of cases. I have lots of sharp knives in my kitchen, too -- but I don't want to have to go slice my hands on every one to prove to strangers that they are indeed sharp -- you'll just have to take my word.

wouldbecouldbe|1 month ago

You are assuming a lot of things.

The work was moving the many landing pages & content elements to NextJS, so we can test, iterate and develop faster. While having a more stable system. This was a 10 year old website, with a very large custom WordPress codebase and many plugins.

The content is still in WordPress backend & will be migrated in the second phase.

6510|1 month ago

There is much going on in that exchange.

I don't even know what a Wordpress site is anymore.

> then maybe the latter is not a suitable choice.

But now it only takes days which makes it suitable?

There also is the paradoxical question if it is worth the time from someone who knows what they are doing? how would you even tell?

tengbretson|1 month ago

To me, this sounds like:

If AI was good at a certain task then it was a bad task in the first place.

Which is just run of the mill dogmatic thinking.