I feel like giving up on coding (reedybear.bearblog.dev)

A different perspective:

It is amazing that now everyone that previously could not code now can build their own tools or projects they have ever wanted.

This democratization is a net good for people who want to build their own thing but just couldn't get started.

I don't see what the issue is here, you can make anything you've ever wanted faster than ever.

Understood if you're one of those "I love the journey" type of people who love it for the sake of building things and open source.

But some of us just want to get something out of our heads and built without months of back and forth with a developer.

Truly exciting times.

erm, what is your disability?

Maybe if you looked at it as "software engineering" or the old-fashioned "programming," you wouldn't be so fed up after all.

Due to other reasons, i can program about 4 hours a week beside other tasks. A few years ago I've given myself permission to spend it on a project I really like, but not really usefull, already existing and a strange language (lisp). It has been really fun, a learned a lot and it turned out usefull. So, just go for it and enjoy it, it's your project.

With all due respect to the author, but it feels like they went directly from "This project is so hard, I could never get it done with my time budget, so there is no point" to "This project is so easy now that anyone could do it, so there is no point".

I feel this skips the part where someone is actually doing the project - and that someone could very well be the author.

I think in that situation, AI tools can be a huge boon. Especially if you lose concentration easily, they can feel like having a bike vs going by foot: You can stay on a more abstract level and still make progress where you'd have to stop and implement every nook and cranny yourself otherwise.