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I've got some bad news for you. Even with AI you still can't make a full web app in under a day.
You can make a fun little demo for sure, but that's a long way away from a full web app. Even without doing any coding or using the computer, simply describing a full web app using pen and paper would actually take more than a day. And when it comes to actually making such a thing, there's so many things besides the coding and even with regards to the coding you haven't considered.
This is a big issue with AI. It provides a shortcut to some sort of end result. Since people get a result, they tend to think they have actually achieved the desired result. But in reality most things are much more complicated and people often have entire careers specializing in one aspect or the other. There's so much that goes on, without people not in the know realizing. Without being an expert yourself, you wouldn't even consider those things to be important.
Let me explain using an example. I can write words on a page. I could even think of a story and give it some structure. Does that mean I can write a book? Technically yes. Would that book be any good and people want to read that book? Probably no. That's because I know enough about writing books, that I know I don't know shit about writing books and would not be able to without years of learning and failing. Now AI could help me vomit out words faster. More words more quickly means I can get a whole book worth of words out in no time at all. But does that mean I somehow gained the knowledge of how to write a good book? No, because I didn't learn anything. In fact I would learn less from using the AI than I would have simply writing down the words myself. Using a tool doesn't magically grant skills that weren't there before.
A lot of people don't understand this and shit out shitty AI books anyways, which then nobody likes. They shit out apps, which then nobody likes and they get abandoned almost immediately. They shit out "art", which then nobody likes. And since they got to some kind of a result, they glaze the AI tools and say it's amazing, even though the results were shit.
There are teams whose whole job is just to describe web apps. They are product managers and UX.
There are people who's job it is to describe movies to the crew. They're called directors and producers.
No bad news for me because it doesn’t pertain to me. Sorry you can’t get AI to work for you. Keep trying! I’ve used AI to build things for me that are totally useful. I’m not selling anything. It’s a tool. It can build full web apps. I’m not talking SaaS. Just simple things. And I’ve learned along the way as well. It’s all about how you use it.
You are selling something, you are trying to sell it to yourself.
Good job on absolutely completely missing the point of my comment. I'm not even mad, that's impressive.
And they say AI doesn't cause brainrot... "Sorry you can’t get AI to work for you. Keep trying!" sounds like the kind of thing you would expect from someone who only outputs the highest quality of work, doesn't it?
I'm not saying all AI users are like this, and there are many smart developers that do use it effectively (like Torvalds), but there is definitely a loud group of AI cheerleaders that extremely careless and overconfident, while lacking any sense of self-criticism or oversight of what they say or do.
And by the way, you definitely can build simple web-apps in a day without AI. I was doing that in 2015 by just following the Django tutorial. It took me longer than a day because I tried to read the documentation and understand it. But if I put the same amount of effort that these low-effort AI users do, I could have easily just copy-pasted shit from the finished tutorial and been done in an hour with the same level of understanding (or lack thereof) that AI users have.
That's the difference between good and bad engineers - you have the tools in front of you, but can you make yourself a better engineer while you use them?
Speaking of which, you know what these AI tools do? They just go to github and copy off some project that already does what you want it to do. Anyone could do that before AI existed. Sure, it's definitely impressive that they can understand what you want to do and find the right result (usually), but you could do that ever since search engines were invented. AI is just the "I'm feeling lucky" button from Google from back when people had enough sense to be a little critical of the results they were looking at before they clicked it.
Not all, but the 99.999999…999% are, and the 0.000000…001% that doesn't will be like that sooner than later.
Show us what it built...