I burned through some tokens recently vibe coding a planning poker app that me and my team could use during refinement sessions. The result of a couple of nights prompting is Pointly. I'm not even ashamed to say AI helped me come up with the name too.

I created Pointly out of genuine need for a free to use planning poker app that was easy to use and looked good but I also wanted to see just how quickly I could build a complete working realtime app without having to write any code myself.

The agent was helped along by steering it with solid architectural decisions but I was consntantly impressed when I gave it the autonomy to make it's own decisions such as how to handle realtime actions and it decided Durable Objects should be the way to go.

We've arrived at the point where code is largely a solved problem. The cost to produce code has become significantly cheaper and the time it takes to ship has gone from days to minutes.

It used to be the case where an engineer would dedicate themselves to mastering their craft through countless hours of reading documentation, contributing to Stack Overflow and building side projects using new tech to stay ahead.

Stack Overflow question volume has dropped by 99% since it's peak in 2014. This isn't particularly surprising but it does make me feel a little bit sad and nostalgic.