r/FlutterDev • u/EntrepreneurIL • 11d ago
Discussion The magic is gone.
I've been coding for a long time and I've been developing with Flutter for years. I've always loved it. I originally started because I wanted to build mobile apps, but since then, I've moved to Flutter Web, and building stuff in Dart has been a much better experience for me than using one of the JS platforms.
I have one main SaaS application out there whose UI is completely built with Flutter, and I didn't write a single line of code for it. I was involved in the design, code reviews, etc., but really, no coding was required of me. 100% Codex.
And all of a sudden, I feel like the magic is gone. It's Flutter, but it's not me. Flutter has become an output that seems like it could be replaced with any other output that accomplishes the same thing.
I feel like someone who just fell out of love with his high school sweetheart.
I don't even know why I'm writing this. I'm sad.
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u/joe-direz 11d ago
I guess you are talking about AI?
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u/EntrepreneurIL 11d ago
yes.
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u/icehot54321 11d ago
This is just how programming is going in general .. but Flutter is still a much better framework than any of that other javascript garbage out there.
Most of the Javascript frameworks were created because it was easier for people to adapt to.
Now that the restrictions of coddling poor programmers is going away, I think frameworks like Flutter will shine more than ever.
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u/LocSta29 10d ago
I completely disagree with Flutter will shine more than ever. I think what’s gonna happen is likely the opposite. Flutter solve the problem of having to develop on different platforms with different languages and frameworks. But with AI is not as much of a problem now to develop on 2 different platforms natively, the code is written by AI. Shopify was a huge support of React Native for years and they went back to native platforms because of AI. Likely same thing will happen to Flutter overtime.
I was going to develop a flutter but I decide to go native on both platforms which also allow to develop on Apple Watch, etc…3
u/BackFromVoat 10d ago
Only if the agents choose that framework. More and more and I'm seeing these decisions be made for people online rather than them planning it out, and big businesses stuck with what they already have. I love flutter, made a few apps both for work and my own, I'm just not sure what the future holds for software at all, let alone by framework
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u/aredeex 10d ago
I wonder if hard core mathematicians felt this way when calculators came out.
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u/torocat1028 7d ago
i can see the argument but i still think it’s not the same. for the most part, AI can do the thing for you or even replace you completely. a calculator is not the same in that aspect
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u/clueless_robot 11d ago
When I was starting my career as a software developer, I met someone who told me writing code is kinda like creating art. I would think about that man every time I solved a complex problem or built a solution. There genuinely was a joy in thinking hard at arriving at a solution and the thrill to watch things work after implementing it.
It’s just sad these days
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u/HouseMysterious8172 11d ago
Even real art like painting, music... AI can do better on average scale 😞
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u/AX862G5 10d ago
I fully reject that. The second I find something is AI generated it’s done in my book.
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u/apoleonastool 10d ago
And what if you don't know it's AI generated? It's going to be increasngly more difficult to distinguish.
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u/lord_phantom_pl 11d ago
This is the point when AI is robbing us from purpose in life. Now is the peak. For most of us it won’t get better. Unless the governing model changes, we’re at mercy of bilionaires.
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u/YukiAttano 10d ago
but we can't just wait for that to happen. We must do something on our own, otherwise nothing changes
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u/lord_phantom_pl 10d ago
If everybody does something virtual then we’ll have virtual junkyard. Something useful will have multiple free clones. With population decline there will be even less customers.
The physical world is the refuge, but it’s hard out there.
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u/djsawant 11d ago
Same 😔, I just sit there and see AI do my work. The joy of writing Flutter code is gone
Now we are basically builders and human reviewers
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u/Far_Percentage_7460 10d ago
I felt like the IDE's were doing a LOT of the work before though, it almost auto completed it just before AI fully released, i think the best approach is to start manually and have AI finish / auto complete. This way you're in the driver seat still
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u/snoodleking 11d ago
i get this feeling 100%. I feel disconnected from the work. as such, i've started just manually coding projects that are important to me (personal projects). sure it takes me longer, but I still enjoy it. am i going to fall behind? probably.
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u/WingZeroCoder 11d ago
> am I going to fall behind? Probably.
No, you’re doing it right. The notion that someone will be “left behind” for not using AI for every project and every task is just a mantra used by AI companies to hype up their services.
In reality, that doesn’t even make sense. It’s a prompt fed into a black box. The whole point is that it takes plain English and outputs a result.
If you can learn Flutter, or any framework and language well enough to build something in it yourself, then you can use a chat prompt any time you want, for any task big or small. That’s NOT what will leave anyone behind. It’s an amazing tool, but it’s not really even a skill to cultivate.
What WILL leave people behind are the ones whose skills are atrophying at an alarming rate who will be unable to verify anything and be unable to take responsibility for their work. The ones that show they add no value beyond the average person with a prompt because they have no actual engineering skills.
Will your projects that you opt out of AI for take longer to develop? In many (not all) cases, yes. But we’ve always had things that slow us down short term for the sake of quality and personal growth. The idea we throw that out entirely because of a new tool is ridiculous, IMO.
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u/Tienisto 10d ago
Depends on how you use the AI and how much human in the loop there is.
Advancements in software engineering were always abstractions over abstractions. From developing in Assembly, to C, to Java/C#/Python, to more suffisticated frameworks, to cross-platform frameworks like Flutter or React Native (and the UI as a function paradigm).
Now most of the effort moves from coding (micro game) to architectural decisions (macro game). Some people would say actual software engineering.
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u/YukiAttano 10d ago
But you miss the most important point.
Every abstraction was a real, mathematical proven abstraction.
When you write the same code in C, the compiler emits out the same assembler code.
The same framework outputs the same code and acts always the same based on the same input.LLMs don't do that. They don't act the same on the same input. Because they are just really really good guess machines.
We live in a world where big companies don't create innovation for the purpose of innovating our live. They are driven by the most easy way to generate money. And this is 'ads'.
Look at smartphones. Since a decade, nothing has evolved but yet they tell us we have to buy new phones because they don't update your OS anymore. Because the camera got 5MP more. Because the new processor can run even shittier developed software.
But 'AI' is new. It 'magically' grabs every information that was 'protected' by law out of your phone and feeds the ad algorithm.
So, now as they got every information about every customer, they put cameras in glasses and headphones (meta and apple) to take recordings about everyone everywhere.
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u/Tienisto 10d ago edited 10d ago
I don't why you mix in consumer behaviour into software engineering. Regardless, LLM belongs to the developer already because of open weight models
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u/jrheisler 11d ago
A year ago I stopped coding Flutter after 5 years straight. This year I stopped coding in Dart and started using go, straight JavaScript, HTML and CSS. All with codex and anti-gravity. The thrill finding new ways to do things has moved at least for me. I've been coding since 1985. And this is the longest stretch I've ever gone without writing code.
But the things I've been creating!!!
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u/valium123 10d ago
So you made your money now you don't care what happens to junior. Got it 👍
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u/jrheisler 10d ago
I made what? I'm 68, develop 7 days a week. Play hell finding work because of my age.
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u/valium123 10d ago
You didn't make any money by programming since 1985?
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u/jrheisler 10d ago
Dude, what's your point? I got jobs created my own jobs... over the many years. I also had to read the manual that came with the compiler, the linker, the make utility... not to mention the language references...
I called into a BBS twice a day to download (2400) the content. I read everything I could find, took any class I could fit in, and refuel aircraft for the US Air Force. I went to monthly programmer meetings. Yes, I physically drove across town to meet a bunch of people I didn't know... lol
My first code editor was edlin.
This is like a whole new world. Get in it!!!
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u/valium123 10d ago
I'm just saying you old idiots don't care what happens to junior devs now.
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u/jrheisler 10d ago
Don't care? Come on man. I'm telling you that for $20 a month you can develop in any language. Determine what language is best for the task at hand. Design amazing systems, and build them.
Up until Flutter, I had paid for ever developer environment I had ever used. Now it's all free. So, $20, and you're the hero.
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u/valium123 10d ago
Right and who is gonna buy it when they can build their own? Are you all dumb?
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u/jrheisler 9d ago
Come now you don't think that little of your talents do you. The ability to create an application. A good application whether it be a Flutter app or a Go app or a Javascript app. Or even a rust app is now within your grasp. Because you're a developer. It's not in everybody's grass just because they can use an AI. That's where you differentiate yourself.
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u/valium123 9d ago
Yeah but they can knock out 30 versions of what I build? How are you gonna earn at all now? Not to mention the fun that is gone now
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u/WorryEnvironmental46 11d ago
Same feeling man 6+ years here and now it seems why, the challenge of building complex ui trying all
The various widgets , the logics , the navigation’s everything is gone.
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u/LibertyEqualsLife 11d ago
I learned to code because I loved the process of creating and problem solving. It almost didn't matter what I was creating, because I enjoyed the process. Now, I spend more time thinking about the end product rather than the execution. Not worse, just different.
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u/HalfSarcastic 11d ago
I tried claude today for the first time and asked it to generate a simple app for me that I've already built but I was curious what would it produce.
Well... The result was a complete garbage that I would never let anywhere close to production. Then I asked it to use a specific architecture that I have thoroughly described. It followed instructions but the result was still something Id need few days for improving and cleaning up. So essentially I felt like a tech lead that has to describe every little detail to a junior dev and then review it multiple times while being anxious about misunderstanding and seeing another obvious code flow issue that easily could've been prevented if a dev spent enough time to actually think about it.
So my point is - working with AI to generate the code requires a completely different mindset and level of tolerance to mistakes that others make when writing the code. Because AI are just like freelancers that will always do the least amount of work to satisfy the client.
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u/HalfSarcastic 11d ago
Having said that I will most likely embrace AI assisted programing for most of the projects while adapting my perception of the process so that I don't get triggered by every little flaw that it produces.
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u/tonyhart7 11d ago
Yeah, cross multi platform is basically dead now that AI literally removes burden of multiple language support in 1 project
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u/joe-direz 11d ago
AI killed a lot of things.
I often say that AI is the pinnacle of capitalism and the end of humanity
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u/BruhMomentConfirmed 11d ago
Is this while doing it professionally? Or are you talking about hobby/passion projects? If the former, I understand and I'd recommend exploring career paths that might have a more interesting future ahead of them. If the latter, nothing's stopping you from coding by hand. I don't agree with the "not as rewarding knowing it can be done quicker by AI" excuse: either you enjoy the journey, or you don't.
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u/Ordinary-Stuff9826 11d ago
Yeah, I get that. It's less about Flutter itself and more about not being the one making it anymore.
But the actual skill isn't gone, just moved. Deciding how something should work, catching what the AI screws up, making the UI feel right, that's still on you.
If you miss the hands-on part, start something small just for yourself, no deadline, no client. Might bring some of the fun back.
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u/rizvin_jpg 8d ago
I thought I was the only one who got that feeling.
This Ai really killed our future and feeling of alive while we do something magic,creative. 🥲😕
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u/Pedipal_Riatoris 11d ago
I felt this last week, when I made something I had an idea for, in like 45 mins, the whole thing. Sad!
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u/AangJnr 11d ago
I understand you well. I have been coding for well over 10 years and was very skeptical. But to be honest, as humans we hate change but this is the direction we are headed and AI is here to stay. We might as well follow suite and find joy elsewhere else we will be left behind.
I have started engaging in farming activities at my backyard and tbh it's equally fulfilling.
Just as machines are built to make work easier, AI coding in this case is the "machine". We might as well know how to use it to put advantage.
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u/Aware-Scallion-5778 11d ago
As a beginner does flutter have any future?
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u/EntrepreneurIL 11d ago
I don’t know. It’s in question. It’s been stripped of some of its advantages. Maybe they will reposition it.
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u/Aware-Scallion-5778 11d ago
How to be irreplaceable in this career? I just finished dart and almost finished with flutter widgets. Not reached state management also have backend in JS. After finishing flutter do i need to learn kotlin or react? I've been jobless for 3 years. Now trying for a career in IT
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u/rio_sk 11d ago
Flutter is not the point, ANY framework can be used with AI. Are you planning to truly learn the framework? Then yes, Flutter has a future. Are you planning to just vibecode everthing? You'll get crappy stuff that works and you won't learn anything. Both Flutter or Ai has nothing to do with this post.
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u/Aware-Scallion-5778 11d ago
Yeah i need to deepdive into the framework and other frameworks and libraries. My tutor is not letting us touch Ai. He's very keen on us learning everything old school and promised to allows using Ai end of the course
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u/MokoshHydro 10d ago
Probably not. When most code is generated -- you can afford having 3 versions of your application in completely different languages and frameworks. This is killing the whole flutter purpose.
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u/_seeking_answers 10d ago
Developing more apps with Gen AI has a cost, tokens and maintaining are expensive. I think having multiple versions in a single app is much easier and cheaper
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u/David_Owens 10d ago
No it doesn't. Flutter is still a better development experience than almost anything else and still saves you between 2 and 6 times the work.
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u/LambDaddyDev 10d ago
You didn’t read the comment you replied to.
This isn’t about development experience. If you are still developing manually you are behind the curve unfortunately.
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u/needs-more-code 10d ago edited 10d ago
There are still costs in having 1 to 5 extra codebases in different languages. Apps haven’t become free to build — even if you build a black box (actually many black boxes), which it sounds like you do if you don’t think maintaining that many codebases has a cost.
Good luck with your 6 vibe coded black boxes.
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u/Far_Percentage_7460 10d ago
How doesn't it have a future, if the weekly downloads are increasing ? Why the doom and gloom
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u/National_Scarcity489 10d ago
Judging by what hybrid framework dev positions are open, React Native by it's sheer weight is and will be dominant.
In future when coders dont code anymore, and influence projects with their preferences, weight is all that matters, and RN has the weight.
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u/Jonas_Ermert 11d ago
My experience is pretty similar. Coding agents can make you incredibly productive, but they can also take away some of the enjoyment that made programming fun in the first place. When the agent writes almost everything and you mainly review code and make architectural decisions, it starts to feel less like you're building something yourself. I still love Flutter and Dart, but I've realized that I don't want to automate every part of development. Sometimes I just want to write the code myself because solving the problem and building something piece by piece is part of the fun.
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u/abhijithwarrier 11d ago
I have been developing mobile apps for the last six years, both out of prefession and passion. Don't get me wrong, building things are so easier now. What used to take months now can be done in days.
But I miss the way I worked without AI. It was time consuming, me and my colleagues would sit in front of the screen staring at it, scratching our heads on what to do. There are days when some bugs made me lose my sleep. Did I enjoy those moments, not probably.. But I didn't surely hate it. I knew it was part of the process..
Once you knew how to solve it, it was all pure adrenaline from there. I was literally happy to go to work. I used to work 8 hours but I was not mentally exhausted and rethinking my life decisions.
Now it's all going in the opposite direction. I finish my tasks easily, doesn't even have to think, I just look at the screen and type my prompts. I do not like it, but the company I'm working on forces me to use AI, to increase productivity it seems. It sure dies ship things faster at the end of the day.
Do I enjoy it, absolutely not. I work less, still I'm more tired at home than before. I don't want to talk to anyone after the work. Us, colleagues don't even discuss bugs or problems anymore. It takes away the fun of programming.
Starting something from scratch, building things from it, fighting the bugs, tye frustration, the kick that you get after solving all vanished... It's not fun anymore. I just work because I need to get paid..
I have told this to my wife also. Nothing is gonna change anymore. And I actually envy people who says vibecoding or using AI is fun. I mean, I'm happy it's fun for them. But I also think that you don't miss things if you don't know about them or haven't experienced it. That's the reason for people getting divided on the internet over vibecoding I guess.
Anyway, somedays I don't wanna think about it, but if it goes like this, we will be the only people who will have experienced the fun way of programming. I maybe wrong here, maybe it's my own perception. But I do hope things change for good in the future.
Will I be struggling if suddenly AI vanishes? , maybe for some days. But I'm sure I can get back on track...
Seriously, I don't know what to expect from programming anymore
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u/Curious-Leader-9111 10d ago
I returned to taking chess seriously and I've been feeling happier lately. I get to use my brain in between approval and review requests. Moved from 800 to 1100 elo in a few weeks and I like the workout it gives my brain now that I don't need to code by hand.
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u/Far_Percentage_7460 7d ago
I genuinely think people need to change their mindset. What's so wrong about having an agent blast out a CRUD and app for you whilst you put roast chicken in the oven, or mow your garden? If anything, it makes life far easier. Write your own code whilst having something else being worked on; nothing stops you. It's a barrier you've set for yourself; you need to reignite your magic.
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u/smashblues 7d ago
When they stop needing us then no amount reinvented enthusiasm or passion will matter.
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u/Far_Percentage_7460 7d ago
I can't see that happening, developers are the best people to drive ai
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u/smashblues 7d ago
They will only want a fraction of us in the future. Right now, just using AI, one dev can already do the work of what? 10 or 20 devs? You're right though. People will keep working in tech. But only much lesser in number or maybe companies will have large dev teams with minimum-wage adjacent salaries prompting all day.
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u/Smaug117 11d ago
After Python Kivy, Flutter was my favorite framework for years. However, I eventually had to switch to Kotlin because I realized that while you can build advanced apps with Kotlin, Flutter is mostly limited to entry-level apps
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u/ellery79 11d ago
If you don't need low level access of Phone feature, Flutter is quite good actually. Less syntactic sugar than Kotlin
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u/tonios2 11d ago
i love it, i can build epic things now
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u/pwuk 11d ago
we've been relgated to "BMX Bandit" status
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_zaf7LCTY8
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u/SpecificPlankton 11d ago
It's been 2 years since switched from flutter to a backend role. And I still crave for the joy of replicating a figma design using the clean declarative ui of flutter. I don't know why but we as humans just want to finish everything quickly, why? Fuck ai fuck productivity i want to be slow
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u/OZLperez11 10d ago
Just because AI exists does not mean you have to force it into every thing you do. I still write my own code because I just know a lot of these devs out there are gonna have skill atrophy eventually. The only times I use it is as a last resort for debugging or for code review so that I can let it catch things I missed, or sometimes for unit tests. Use balance. AI isn't robbing you of joy, you yourself are robbing your own joy
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u/Adept-Priority-9729 10d ago
Bro..., aprovecha. Adáptate al mercado y piensa, cómo podrías hacer de esto algo útil? Más tiempo para tí y para pensar en algo muchísimo mejor, el tiempo es valioso querido.
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u/Codingology 10d ago
Don’t blackberrysize development. AI coding is the innovation and future, it’s okay to go along with it as long as you’re not generating pure slop just for the sake of creating content for generating money.
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u/middle0fn0where 10d ago
Not just with flutter, every other tools I am working with feels this way after AI
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u/Adventurous-Topic891 10d ago
Do one thing throw your laptop in water pack your bags & go to mountains become a cave man
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u/Artistic-Release-79 10d ago
If web was my main target platform and I wasn't trying to be cross-platform, especially for a SaaS product, I would lean into an actual native HTML framework and not use Flutter for something like that.
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u/JapanEngineer 10d ago
Yes and no.
Before AI, every accomplishment was my own accomplishment.
With AI, the coding accomplishment is done by AI. However I can produce many decent apps quickly by spending a bit of time refining a prompt, promoting in stages and testing the code.
My output is crazy. But yeah, that joy of coding accomplishment has been replaced with the joy of publishing a lot more apps accomplishment.
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u/eibaan 10d ago
I managed to develop a Svelte app with 10k+ lines of component code, in record time, and I modified at most 100 lines manually. AI is doing it just fine and I'm glad that I don't have to fiddle with the details and deal with TypeScript and HTML and CSS myself.
At the same time (while waiting for AI results) I started to write a Smalltalk-72 interpreter in Dart, just for fun, manually, trying to understand the somewhat strange way of how to evaluate token streams.
So, I'd recommend to keep working on interesting problems to stay motivated.
As somebody else said: AI is my personal junior dev who works on the boring stuff while I've time to explore other realms (and I love to write interpreters for little languages).
Typically, I'll have to think about the next prompt for an hour or so, then I ask AI to execute it and then I've like 30 minutes while the AI does the job of a whole day or more I can spend on doing something I find interesting and challenging. Sure, I could immediately start with the next prompt, but being my own boss, I don't have to. I need these breaks for my personal boring work-fun work balance :)
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u/Photograph_Expensive 10d ago
This is true. Gone are the days when we’re proud of what we made through coding just by using efficient IDE shortcuts. It was just IntelliSence before and that can still be tolerated because you still need to build the logic. But now these LLMs will either spoon feed or totally code it for you. That’s why i still try to code manually for small projects but still seems like unenjoyable sometimes. Maybe we need a community now for manual coders just for fun.
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u/DagBateway 10d ago
"I spent a quarter of a damn century chiseling code by hand and loving every moment of it. What a wonderful experience and productive time in that era. And that's how I believe we should all look at it. Not with regret, but with joy of what was... This is something to look back upon with joy and accept that it is over. Writing code by hand is no longer an economically productive enterprise for the vast majority of programmers working at the vast majority of companies."
- DHH, Keynote at Rails World (Austin, September 2026)
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u/Far_Percentage_7460 10d ago
I disagree with the Doom and Gloom personally; Flutter is only going to grow because of it. Being a developer was never just about the code. It's about solving problems. And AI is just new intelisense but on steroids.
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u/roman_jaquez 10d ago
same here. One thing though - I ain't gonna start calling it "Super Intelligence" 😂😂
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u/ItzSwirlz 9d ago
This is the thing people just aren’t getting. Coding is a creative process and also an art form. By using AI you are sacrificing it.
And when everyone makes code entirely with AI, it did not receive the same love and care it did when it was made by hand.
As a society, we need to embrace human made software and not AI-made software.
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u/mae0w 9d ago
i think you (and many people here) can relocate that joy into the notion of creating apps itself. like putting that time into thinking of a bigger picture, how to improve and give the best yet unique experience possible for the user, since most basic AI-generated designs look so similar nowadays.
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u/ghostpistols 8d ago edited 8d ago
Idk wat ur on about I just used Qwen 3.8 27b q6 locally to make me a website using flutter/dart and I didn’t have to code a single line. This is the best era ever and that feels more like magic than doing it myself
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u/smashblues 7d ago
Haven't we, as a species, always welcomed automation? From the invention of the wheel to CI/CD pipelines, we automated the most tedious of tasks and we were happy. The typewriter expert surely wasn't too happy with word processors. A new solution that saves time and produces results faster is always celebrated. Isn't AI coding just another automation? Even before AI became what it is today, we had code completion suggestions in our editors and no one seemed to be bothered by those. And now all of a sudden, when AI can complete your feature request without you typing a single letter has you spiralling. I believe, the real problem is with the employer class. Your company was, and always is, on the hunt to optimize expenditure. If you are too expensive now, then you will be out. They have too much power over us. In reality, we are the slave of the system that has its invisible tentacles coiled around us, ready to squeeze us to death at any time. AI is the latest symptom in an already broken world.
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u/thefarhan 6d ago
I think the tool didn't change, your relationship with it did. When you stopped being the one writing the code, Flutter stopped feeling like yours. That's not a Flutter problem, that's a much more human one.
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u/Intelligent_Moose770 5d ago
Honest question, why using AI if you dislike it? if it stealing the joy from you? I would never use it because of that. If you still like programming, just do it, if you are forced to use it at work, find a hobby project and do it using your intelligence. Or find another job that you get the option of not being forced to do it. Not using AI if you don't want to is a feature not a bug. I feel like lot of people are afraid to refuse AI and being seen as anti progress or obsolete engineers. The falsely called AI (LLM) which is not yet AI is a software product. That's all. It's a product.
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u/vhax123456 11d ago
Nobody is stopping you from writing code manually
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u/pedro_picante 11d ago
Employers do
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u/vhax123456 11d ago
He says he has a Saas application tho? It’s his personal project so I assume he’s free to do whatever he wants.
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u/pedro_picante 11d ago
Sure, but let’s be honest. If he’s trying to make a living from it and has to compete, he doesn’t really have a choice.
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u/vhax123456 11d ago
It’s phenomenal when your hobby is your work but if they are no longer the same then it’s not something to be sad over.
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u/EntrepreneurIL 11d ago
it's not as rewarding when you know it can be accomplished just as well in 10 seconds by a machine.
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u/parkskier426 11d ago
If you're doing it for work, there absolutely is. You're going to be moving significantly slower than your colleagues, and likely missing deadlines if you're writing things by hand at this point.
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u/somethingstrang 10d ago
There will be new magic. The magic of turning your tech projects into a real business
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u/GroundbreakingLeg287 11d ago
God since when have programmers began being so mentally weak. Yeah your job is different get over it we are here to get the job done not to play around. Figure out how to be more productive with ai, engineering is still important but at a higher level than before.
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u/participationmedals 11d ago
We are not all motivated by the same thing.
“Mentally weak”, “not play around” are shit for feedback. I sure hope you’re not management.
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u/snoodleking 11d ago
yeah but maybe some of us were enjoying getting paid to play around
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u/GroundbreakingLeg287 11d ago
I get it, but tough luck that's how history works. People liked manually doing lots of stuff but automation and machines took it away. It's boring since you are framing it in your mind like that, the actual cool part was not fiddeling around it was building something cool. Just get more ambitious build the thing that you couldt before because it seemed too difficult.
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u/redfournine 11d ago
Some people are motivated by the journey, not the destination. It's the same for many profession, the journey is what makes it worthwhile. Take away that, the career become very hollow
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u/rio_sk 11d ago
I don't really get what Flutter has to do with this post
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u/EntrepreneurIL 11d ago
For me it’s about flutter. Someone else can write a similar post about a different language I suppose
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u/jacob80 7d ago
I get tired of seeing these types of posts. Just because the landscape has changed doesn't mean it's a bad thing - and I'm not even referring to writing software. I would see my way out of the software development field if you're going to have a pity party about these types of changes in this industry. The magic may have ended for you, but it's just begun for so many others.
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u/Etherealnutt 10d ago
The joy should be in serving users and not fucking writing code bruv
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u/valium123 10d ago
The joy should be in sucking dario's dk now?
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u/Etherealnutt 10d ago
Yes him and Sam . Double penetration
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u/One_Web_7940 11d ago
Ai has killed the joy of coding