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What are your honest thoughts about tools like lovable and bolt?

I am not asking this question to start a debate on the pros-cons of integration GenAI in a coding workflow. For context, I don't have a software engineering background - I however do run a company that is in the business of selling software - specifically web applications. For a very long time I've had to rely on a lot of people to get some basic things running and when it reached a point where I realized I was being taken for granted I decided to learn the barebones that was required to quickly deploy prototypes. It was a very rewarding experience, and to this day I still push myself more to learn what is required in the logistics side of Software Development so that I can be proficient in handling all business operations - and leave the rest to talented developers.

Recently I got a chance to test out [Allhands AI](https://www.all-hands.dev/). I have had experience with botl, v0 etc but quite frankly they are a long way from generating something usable for me (even when it comes to building a decent frontend) but this one ..... really piqued my interest. This is very similar to a product called Devin, but this is open source and by far my experience using this was great. It lacks creativity, but it has some real potential to take care of a lot of grunt work I would have to do otherwise.

Up until now I was very laid back on the role that GenAI would have (purely based out of my experience with bolt and such) but Allhands feels like an actual tool that could be utilized well in a production environment. Mind you - not in its current state, but with the trajectory its moving, I see real potential for businessmen(women) like myself benefit ALOOOOOT from innovations like this - especially with web development.

What are your honest thoughts about this? Am I just hyping something because I have no real world experience? How do you see tools like these affect the web development world?

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