Ya they are either astroturfed or... I think there's just a lot of like young junior JavaScript developers who really haven't built like a full program with multiple features by themselves.
I think they do some sort of like online tutorial and then they sort of like go through some sort of a course and then they get a job but they're only like doing like small pieces of like code writing themselves and I guess that's where like these editors help them some more.
You see more and more YC startups these days using TypeScript and Node as their stack, which is so strange to me.
But I agree with you. The AI stuff hasn't worked for me at all apart from some smarter autocomplete.
I've been programming for about 30 years and I get a lot of benefit from these tools.
My day job is mainly data science and data forensics and these LLM tools are fantastic for both as they excel at writing scripts and data processing tools. SQL queries, R plots, Pandas data frame manipulation, etc.
They also work well for non-trivial applications like these that I made with Claude Projects writing 90% - 95% of the code:
I think they do some sort of like online tutorial and then they sort of like go through some sort of a course and then they get a job but they're only like doing like small pieces of like code writing themselves and I guess that's where like these editors help them some more.
You see more and more YC startups these days using TypeScript and Node as their stack, which is so strange to me.
But I agree with you. The AI stuff hasn't worked for me at all apart from some smarter autocomplete.