I've found that to be the case for my personal projects. Not less for the fact that I don't have to spend any time googling anything. I can just write code. I've used web tech for so many years that I don't need to learn anything anymore if I'm not in a framework. Outside a framework, it's all just the same stuff that's always been there.
Even today's LLM-assisted programming doesn't give me that fluidity. If I use LLMs to assist me in writing a big framework, it'll autocomplete stuff I haven't learned yet, so I need to retroactively research it to understand it.
JS soup on a webpage is a mess, but it's all using the same tools that I know well, and that to me is productive.
Even today's LLM-assisted programming doesn't give me that fluidity. If I use LLMs to assist me in writing a big framework, it'll autocomplete stuff I haven't learned yet, so I need to retroactively research it to understand it.
JS soup on a webpage is a mess, but it's all using the same tools that I know well, and that to me is productive.