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Actually, the platform started that way, but I removed it due to complications with the Google login system. I was wasting a lot of time with it, so I decided to stop and continue with normal login and password. I'm still working on some new features. As soon as I have more time, I'll log in with Google/Apple again.
Thank you very much for your feedback, my friend!
I think you're too concerned with how others speak to believe that someone can actually write good, well-written comments. Obviously, in the age of LLMs, we might use one or two things to produce a better response. But that doesn't mean I don't think about what I wrote. Especially since English isn't my native language. Anyway, don't worry about me!
I just fixed that! Thank you so much for letting me know. I had forgotten to upload that commit, haha!
Could you refresh the page and test it?
I completely agree with the premise, but if we just ask for the ZIP code first and auto-fill the rest, how am I going to justify my 2-week sprint to build a custom, React-based, fuzzy-searchable, virtualized dropdown component for the 'State' field?
Just kidding xP
With a CS degree and 15 years of software engineering under my belt, I was initially skeptical of 'vibe coding'. But the article is right about this adolescent phase. I recently built my platform (https://voix.chat) 100% through agentic workflows. Having that much experience meant I didn't use the AI as a crutch to learn how to code; I used it as a hyper-productive junior dev while I played the paranoid senior architect. It allowed me to focus purely on the hard stuff: strict anti-flood mechanisms, brute-force protection, and overall server hardening. The AI handles the syntax; the human handles the paranoia.
Reading this brings back so many memories of the early 2000s, using Cheat Engine to inject code into GunBound. It's funny how trying to get infinite gold or a perfect aimbot in a multiplayer game was the ultimate gateway drug to learning memory management, pointers, and assembly for an entire generation. The OS targets change, but the thrill of manipulating a running process remains exactly the same.
Going from static HTML to dynamic ASP felt like suddenly gaining superpowers. We've been missing that true 'Rapid Application Development' (RAD) energy for a long time. Today’s AI agents are basically the modern incarnation of dragging and dropping a button in VB6 and writing logic behind it, but on a massive scale. It's great to hear you've found that spark again!
Great point about coding agents! Back then, Docker gave us 'it works on my machine, let's ship the machine'. Now, AI agents are giving us 'I have no idea how this works, let's ship the prompt'. The early Docker community spirit really was legendary though—before every hyperscaler wrapped it in 7 layers of proprietary managed services. Thanks for the memories and the write-up!
A full decade since we took the 'it works on my machine' excuse and turned it into the industry standard architecture ('then we'll just ship your machine to production').