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I absolutely could not build a web app on my own from scratch and at this point in my life I do not have the time to learn how.
There’s absolutely no doubt that AI democratizes many capabilities that people otherwise would not possess, whether the output is “slop” or not. Sometimes you just want to quickly prototype something. Doesn’t have to be perfect. You can do that in minutes to hours. If you like it, pay somebody to do it right, or AI may even be able to do it right depending on the task.
I think you look at a web app too narrowly, a web app could be any page that loads content from an external source.
I am not a web developer, and I built a system that logs the water temp to a database and a webpage displays it to help people know if they want to go for a swim or not.
It took a few weeks of free time to get everything to work, but it has been running for about 5-6 years continuously.
That is a web app, an application solving a need running on the web.
It was developed by me without any AI, and I have only limited experience with web development.
I think you can do more than you give yourself credit for without AI.
There is so much wrong with that.
For starters, you don't possess it. You still can't do it because you haven't learned.
Second, it's not something you have inherent access too. LLMs are completely unaffordable to anyone using them, which is why the companies are running insane losses. Your use of LLMs depends entirely and fully on the availability of venture capital to burn.
Third, it was always within your ability to learn. The information to acquire the skills has been available for free.
Fourth, thanks to LLMs (and enshittification) it is becoming more and more difficult to find and access that free information.
Please send me a web app you have made without the assistance of a computer. I will wait.
I have a degree in electrical engineering, happy to decode, DM for the address.