True that Claude can generate a simple working prototype in a single prompt. But there's still the friction of deploying the app, making it accessible across devices, and easily managing updates. Which something like Glide streamlines for non-technical users.

For those curious, you can also do some pretty fast prototyping (including deploy) with https://bolt.new and https://v0.dev (vercel). Sometimes even a single prompt.

publish it as a website and download it as a PWA

Even just "make it a PWA" can take an experienced frontend developer a day or more. The manifest needs to be just right, the server might need to be reconfigured to serve the right MIME type, you need to generate a few mandatory icon sizes, you need a service worker even if you're not using it...

If you're using a big framework like Vite, this is somewhat easier, but then it's not a "simple html file" anymore and you spend just as much time fiddling with framework stuff.

He kind of answered you in TFA:

> I can feel some people reading this article demanding that I just learn Swift or some mobile-friendly JavaScript package and make some real apps, but I steadfastly refuse. I enjoy the messy middle of programming, where I have just enough app, API, and logic knowledge to make something small for my friends and family that's always accessible on this little computer I carry everywhere, but I have no ambitions to make it "real."

An AI generated page will be full of security holes that a non programmer will be unable to assess.

I'm not normally a fan of nocode but dude, get real, the target user for this will have zero chance of understanding and maintaining the output if it's in code. Compared to pick your column and choose the type of widget you want it represented as. Below the tip of that iceberg there are also lots of non trivial features like search and sync.

Why buy a bike when you can assemble one from parts?

Cause guy does not code perhaps? Otherwise siding with this comment thread. Claude indeed does super rapid html5 dev a child’s play.

Presumably so they can hook into an external datasource

so can a simple HTML5 page with a jquery script tag

I've always heard of completely devoid out of touch developers but this is the first I've seen it so pronounced.

The classic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

Did you skip web design 101? If it’s simple enough, you can absolutely slap it together with jQuery and html.

Time is a valuable resource. This doesn’t simply boil down to one’s abilities—for most of us, opportunity cost is an important factor. If I’m just trying to get some value out of some data, why waste time playing web developer, fighting CSS, dealing with CORS issues, etc., when I could simply use an existing tool that already has my use case covered?

One day left for 2024 and snark is dead; hopefully it's revived in 2025!

Yeah, I can’t tell if some of these responses are serious or tongue in cheek.

Ha. You said exactly what was on my mind.