The generative industry is moving so fast; with images, video, music, speech, written word all now improving at a rapid place.
Many people are not seeing it.
Today I was able to build a web tool that may not be great for production but is really quite good for the debugging and investigation of an API. The ‘AI’ was able to understand some of my complex but no quite so explanatory prompts in a way that blew me away and was able to produce some really valuable work.
I don’t fully know whether programming is going to die as a profession. I think *eventually* yes, it probably will be abstracted away much like assembly language has been. All the patterns will be fully understood, trained, tweaked and they will be able to replicate huge swaths of code that actually create a great product.
When you do get into complex systems though – whilst I’m no silicon valley person – it does seem that there are limitations on it, and it must have an experienced human (developer) guiding it to get it to the last 5% of properly working.
That’s just programming. The rest of the generative industry is equally as mind blowing.
Are people really seeing what’s going on?
And do they understand the magnitude?
And are they embracing?
Work Diary
Laravel Herd & Filament
Whilst I have been prototyping with Vanilla, I checked out Filament last night on Laracasts:
Filament Forms
The Form library alone is complete enough to warrant using Filament. It has so many small quality of life features that add up. From memory here’s a few that convinced me:
- Really nice prefix and suffix options
- Really nice icon and description and helper text integrations
- Excellent search integration into long selects in one line of code
- A really easy wizard workflow setup
- Excellent integration of new entity creation when a user needs to be able to add a new option to a select list
- Easy linking between SELECTS
This is of course on top of it working solidly as you would expect.
So, I’m flipping my prototype to use Filament … which is an excellent basis going forward.
Filament File Uploads
In one line, its got a drag and drop file upload, with image preview built in. Uses filecon JS
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