Coding apps with English

I’m really excited about these AI tools! As an everyday guy juggling a busy family life, I don’t see myself becoming a master coder anytime soon. Coding and tech will always be a fun side hobby for me. But with AI tools like these, I can learn faster and prototype ideas that I’d never have the time to develop from scratch!

Let’s be real, folks like me aren’t here to compete with professional coders or those with computer science degrees. We’re just average people looking to dive into the world of tech for a little fun and creativity. I can totally envision a future where everyday users create simple micro web apps to share or sell, paving the way for new platforms beyond Google Play and the App Store. It’s an exciting time to explore tech, and I can’t wait to see where it all leads!

Ai will replace all of us soon, without a doubt.

It’s just generating customized boilerplate code through natural language, which doesn’t differentiate the product. The factor that distinguishes products doesn’t lie in boilerplate code.

Yo literally can't download from Bolt and they force you to run it on their hosting. That's their whole business model. Only way to get it local is to copy and paste the contents of each file locally yourself and recreate all the files manually.

not really sure what is the target audience,
no programmers ? not convince, programming it's not just line of code, still need to handle lot of things.
or programmers ? well... I still like my job and writing code... this sound boring to me, having to use this kind of tools...

FUD master Wes Bos

components used by GitHub Spark come from Radix

which llm model are they all running on?

Its a fancy boilerplate generator. At the end of the day you will reach a point where you want to do something AI just won't understand. This stuff always seems to break down in the details. But it outputs code so at that point the devs can take over and make it a proper app.

Using English to code apps is not going to destroy the job market. Using Hindi to code apps is going to obliterate the job market and salt the remaining scorched Earth.

great vid man. thanks for sharing. these AI tools are going to enable a lot of people to do a lot of things. exciting.

It’s a very bad time to be studying CS. The brainless CEOs will see this and keep only the experienced devs. And then we will eventually run out of the experienced devs as they retire and there won't be anyone to take their place.

As a developer who is terrible with the design side of things, this is amazing. Not to trivialize designers either since there is a lot of complexity there as well, but getting a baseline for a project within minutes, just from a design perspective with color schemes and layout, is going to very much improve that initial phase of figuring out how to execute on an idea and get something going. Since that is something I always struggle with on personal projects to just get past the foundational stuff such as how to present content and just get to working on the functional implementation

As a professional programmer since 1999 one thing AI will definitely do is leave the sceptics in the dust wondering what the hell happened to their career. All the rest of us received the unlimited cheat code making us faster - not just production wise but the areas of how fast we learn, find bugs, refactor legacy systems, asking endless questions about the magic stuff we've always taken for granted. The learning and understanding of new and legacy code is exponential to say the least.

not sure about the others, but I'd rather gouge my eyes out with rusty forks than use v0. It's trash

Should i still learn how to code???...
Wtf man

I gonna considered drag and drop and no code app builder is the real treath than AI code generator. Because ordinary people are still scared of the code. But in other part, it gonna produced more programmers and web developers than WordPress wannabes

🫡 It's been a pleasure lads. goes down with ship

I tried using Vercel V0 after watching your video. I built an English-Arabic dictionary with auto-complete, which is pretty amazing. It took a few tries for the auto-complete to work and the tool even suggested putting a limit to 5 results for better performance. I'm pretty impressed with it to say the least. Thank you for making this video, Wes.

The thing is, apps need ongoing maintenance, not just a one-time build. An LLM can spin up a full-stack app with Flask and Vue, but when something breaks, you're left guessing—or relying on the LLM to fix it, which doesn't always work. And even if it does, tomorrow might bring another bug, and you're back to hoping the LLM can keep your site running.

Will LLMs improve and streamline this process? Sure. But frameworks change fast (often with poor documentation), or they go obsolete altogether, so that React app your LLM whipped up today might not run smoothly a year from now.

My recommendation for people who don't know webdev: If you're using AI to build something, tell it to keep things as close to vanilla as it can (at least until AGI takes over and we all become plumbers).

AI is going to weed out the so-so coders who will move onto some other career. Decent developers are not threatened by this but recognize it as just another tool that makes you an even better programmer.

Where do you get these sick backgrounds Wes?

This is so misguided.

Yea let’s pay Vercel to go hoist some boilerplate SaaS off github instead of just doing it ourselves lol “baseline changing” my arse.

It isn’t creating anything new and if you lack the skills to git clone something and stand it up I hate to break it to ya but these tools do zero for you most of all.

Seems kinda fishy

This is really cool to see. I'm still not convinced it'll replace experienced developers, but it'll absolutely augment the way we work.

One thing I don't yet have a grasp of is how new people enter the industry without being woefully unaware of how anything works. If you can coerce and AI into making an app work, you might not touch code very often at all. This will likely lead to a TON of work for people like me to do, but it might not be very fun work to do. And really, can there be a future where a generation of devs skip a huge amount of learning and depend on AIs to cover their gaps? I think there will be... I just can't imagine quite what that industry looks like.

i'm trying so hard not to be a doomer but it's exhausting

I hate the way tech chanels headlines this ai videos, making developers more anxious in exchange for a click bait. And now you are one of then.

One thing you need to custom and then the whole project starts getting messy 😂

oh we are cooked, baked, grilled even

it cannot solve real life problems!

@Wes are you still releasing new courses ?

Just another boilerplate tool, doesn't look interesting to me...

The idea that this is not going to impact the numbers of new hires in tech is naive.

AI inevitably gets into trouble. For that reason a person has to know how to code to produce the desired outcome.
However, it's a pretty cool productivity tool.

I don't look at this stuff as replacing developers, but rather giving us some tools to make us more productive. Using an LLM to scaffold up a rough app idea and then fleshing it out by hand would still be faster than writing everything from the ground up in most cases.

Lol coding monkeys are cooked! Especially the indians.

So I should apply at McDonald's now

Hi Wes. What's your opinion? Is there a chance that these stuff replace us as a developer?

this is terrifying ! we are indeed cooked

"It's probably trained on my own code" 😅 crazy flex

Wes Bos are you working on any course?

Damn coding changes in future so much