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Everybody Wants to Be a Dev!

For a while now, an idea has been gaining traction: with artificial intelligence, anyone can build an app without knowing how to code. The promise is incredibly seductive: with just a few prompts, we can generate code and instantly turn an idea into a product.

Everybody Wants to Be a Dev!

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For a while now, an idea has been gaining traction: with artificial intelligence, anyone can build an app without knowing how to code.

The promise is incredibly seductive: with just a few prompts, we can generate code and instantly turn an idea into a product.

It's no coincidence that this vision took hold so quickly and gave rise to services like Lovable.dev, Blot.new, v0, and others.

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For a while now, an idea has been gaining traction: with artificial intelligence, anyone can build an app without knowing how to code. The promise is incredibly seductive: with just a few prompts, we can generate code and instantly turn an idea into a product. It's no coincidence that this vision took hold so quickly and gave rise to services like Lovable.dev, Blot.new, v0, and others.

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  • Every new technological evolution that narrows the gap between an idea and software tends to make developers' work look like an arcane ritual waiting to be dismantled by a simpler formula.

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