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epolanskiyesterday at 6:51 PM2 repliesview on HN

I think you're completely misreading what I wrote.

PHP (lets use this as an example) brings already many benefits over a common solution like a TypeScript monorepo mostly operational simplicity. That was already true before AI.

It's boring, very fast and easy to deploy, offers straightforward horizontal scaling, no need to orchestrate containers and/or multiple runtime processes, has excellent html rendering (nothing in JS-land really does), and has very solid framework solutions like Laravel where everything works out of the box.

Those merits existed before AI already.

The issue was that you had to buy into PHP as a language, which was a horrible experience.

But if AI writes most of the code? Suddenly PHP becomes an excellent candidate to choose for many use cases.

If anything, AI makes the choice of programming and languages and software about finding the right tool for the job. Somehow the industry instead keeps vomiting React/Tailwind slop which are the right tool for 1% of the jobs.

I hope to have cleared the concept.


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Gormoyesterday at 7:55 PM

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