But what would the consequences for the industry be? How many competitors to every major product appear overnight once such AI is released? Why would Netflix and others, being aware of such a thing, release any of their technology to public after approx. right now?

I suspect that in such environment any kind of knowledge sharing would stop, simply to keep technological advantage. I cannot imagine a world where everyone is equally capable. If anyone can do anything, does anything have any value at all?

In my 15 years long developer career I've always found ways to automate all kinds of chores in big projects - simple shell scripts generate boilerplate code for services/modules/controllers/etc, modern infrastructure & tools automate or completely hide a lot of mundane work while giving back valuable data to act upon (think testing and deployment), the code itself is almost always highly modular and lets me to rearrange complex logic in no time with minimum risk. All that while having complete understanding of what's going on, and full control over every aspect of the software I'm responsible for.

And I have a feeling that writing proper prompts to achieve all that (even given the model has enough context) would simply be more work than just properly programming it the old way.

Besides that, the models feeding on OSS and Indian code from GitHub is not only injust, it's also very limited in how creative it can be - the next innovation would leave LLM-generated solutions behind if kept in vault, so LLMs cannot learn form it. And I have a feeling that's where we're heading - death of OSS (esp. in the wake of the recent supply-chain attacks) and a new round of closed-source technological competition.

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So, this is another random web tool for those tasks and few others. At the moment it helps with URLs (parses & transcodes query values), JSONs (formats & converts them to YAML), Base64 transcoding (including files!), has few crypto functions and, of course, a timestamp converter. There are plans to add a CSV<->JSON converter, a JSON transformer/mapper, a JWT parser/validator, probably a HMAC tool and more.

And the main feature, so rarely found in developer tools, is it's UI. Unlike all the similar tools out in the web, which look like they have been designed by professional programmers, this one is made by a professional programmer who used to date a professional UX designer, so it has both smooth operations & neat looks. There are hotkeys (not many at the moment, but I'm aiming at having full keyboard control over the thing eventually), a sharing feature and data reuse across tools.

We, backend developers, deserve to have nice things too. Give it a shot, I hope one day it finds it's place among your favourite tools.

/!\ Please mind it works only in desktop browsers now. I see not much use for this thing on mobile, but maybe one day a mobile version will follow.

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