Daniel Leon
@daniel-leon.bsky.social
Functional programming advocate and open source supporter. I love learning new things and working with great people!
That’s exactly like building a house with a team of workers, but no plan or previous experience. Before you realise you needed that extra wall, the building is collapsing, money is gone and most of the time you’re left with a pile of rubble that no one wants to touch.
Shovel-sellers made a lot of money off people who didn't know anything about mining for gold, while the latter found only a few flecks in their pans at best, and went through an "enthusiasm ⭢ increasing pain ⭢ giving up" arc as their losses added up and they decided to write off their sunk costs.
Seeing more posts like this (and I don’t mean to single out Andrea!)
After enthusiasm thanks to rapid progress —> a few months of increasing pain —> giving up
Turns out having a tool that generates code doesn’t remove the need to know how to program to build complex software…
After enthusiasm thanks to rapid progress —> a few months of increasing pain —> giving up
Turns out having a tool that generates code doesn’t remove the need to know how to program to build complex software…
August 12, 2025 at 6:50 AM
That’s exactly like building a house with a team of workers, but no plan or previous experience. Before you realise you needed that extra wall, the building is collapsing, money is gone and most of the time you’re left with a pile of rubble that no one wants to touch.