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 When I talk to normies about it, they have no idea what I’m talking about 
 I think it’s just a pretty big time sink for a lot of people. I’ve been curious about learning to code, but I feel as if it would take thousands of hours to even begin to make something that is remotely useful or even usable. 
 that's the problem though. people spend too much time thinking about learning to code instead of just jumping in and trying to build stuff. check out this dude who doesn't know how to code building his own note taking app.

https://youtu.be/kXnW4Hy4Z7o 
 I appreciate you sending me this. I’ll watch it and see where it takes me. 🫡 
  @NotBiebs  if it took this dude with AI < 4 hrs to code that with zero experience, how fast does it take us experienced devs + AI, maybe < 1 hr  LOL

enterprise backend dev told me the other day AI cut his time down from many months to a few weeks. we are totes in a new era 
 This is epic 🙌🏻 
 Thank you for this. I'm about to go down a rabbit hole  
 urm,  @Noshole and  @Puzzito made turdsoup without much experience.  Was that a massive time sink?  
 Nope 🙂‍↔️ first version only took a few hours but I did have a basic understanding of cPanel, DNS, JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
And of course I had help from ChatGPT 
  @J.erb all your assumptions busted belong to us 
 Not sure if turd soup is actually useful though 😝 
 As long as one person uses it, it’s useful to someone 😀 
 Thanks for lifting my spirits 😊 
 agreed 
 I’m recommending turd soup as an art prompt generator when I start promoting the #nostrichnovember art challenge. 👍  I think it’s great. 🫂 
 that's also an aspect of your own mind blocking its potential. 

 
 puzzles and noshole made that turdsoup app with not much help and a lotta AI. 

did you hear about the law firm that fired most of its juniors and replaced with chatgpt? crazy.