I would love to see the world where you didn't use AI and instead invested the time to make yourself a stronger programmer. A react wordle clone isn't something most developers would need 2 hours to make (sure maybe the styling / hosting AROUND the wordle clone might take longer) - I'm not saying you're a bad programmer or a bad person but what is the opportunity cost of using AI here? Are you optimising yourself into a local-minima?
they said 90% of it was spent on ideation and exploration
they didnt specifically mean they built a wordle clone, just a game like it. if they wanted just a wordle clone, they wouldve gotten one within a few minutes of using codegen tools.
> I estimate that 90% of the time was spent thinking about the product, directing the AI, and testing
In other words 90% of the time was spent in the proompt-test-proompt loop. Not ideation and exploration.
> they didnt specifically mean they built a wordle clone, just a game like it. if they wanted just a wordle clone, they wouldve gotten one within a few minutes of using codegen tools.
If you really believe that I'm not sure what to say other than: have you tried to use an AI to make a full wordle clone? (not just the checking logic, or rendering - the entire thing)
yes, the quote is what I'm referring to, directing the AI is part of it, people use these to quickly brainstorm and refine ideas. I'd be more charitable and wouldn't hastily assume it was some skill issue, especially them being a principal engineer
I think this excitement reflects the fact that most devs are shoemakers without shoes. They could get cursor-like experience decades ago by preparing snippets, tools, templates, editor configs and knowledge bases. But they used that “a month of work can save two days of planning” principle, so now having a sort of a development toolkit feels refreshing. Those who had it aren’t that impressed.
