I remember back in the day when I did Visual Basic in the 90s there were a lot of cool "New Project from Template" things in Visual Studio, especially when you installed new frameworks and SDKs and stuff like that. With a click of a button you had something that kind of looked like a professional app! Or even now, the various create-whatever-app tooling in npm and node keeps on that legacy.

Anyway, AI "coding" makes me think of that but on steroids. It's fine, but the hype around it is silly, it's like declaring you can replace Microsoft Word because "New Project From Template" you got a little rich text widget in a window with a toolbar.

One of the things mentioned in the article is the writer was confused that Claude's airplane was sideways. But it makes perfect sense, Claude doesn't really care about or understand airplanes, and as soon as you try to refine these New Project From Template things the AI quickly stops being useful.