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Journey to the West, Volume 1by Wu Cheng'en translation by Anthony C. Yu
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App Update, JTTW, AI Replacing Devs

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App Update: Habits App

After realizing that I didn't have a way to refresh access tokens with my previous implementation, I decided to not roll out my own auth.

Doing some quick research led me to Clerk. Outside of me mixing up my development and production secrets (as I tend to do), getting auth working in your app is really quick. I was able to make the switch in a few hours. Now instead of just having Google OAuth, I have email and password plus the option to add many other auth providers like Github, Apple, Facebook, etc.

They handle a lot of auth headache that you can avoid early on in building a product. I will most likely keep using Clerk to handle auth in my future project. NOW I feel like the app is in a good spot, so I'll shift my focus to another project.

Journey To The West

Black Myth: Wukong has been out for almost a month now and I am starting to feel the FOMO of not having a console or powerful PC to play it. For the time being I'll entertain myself with the story that inspired the game.

I've been reading the first volume of Journey to the West written by Wu Cheng'en. JTTW is a Chinese novel from the 16th century Ming Dynasty. On top of inspiring Black Myth: Wukong, other media inspired by the novel includes:

I'm a few chapters in and I can already see the personality that I heavily enjoyed as a kid watch Goku in Dragon Ball Z. The main character, Sun Wukong, is a monkey born from stone who seeks immortality and other wonders of the world.

What I love about the character of Sun Wukong and Son Goku is that they are seeking more than what their current life has to offer. Goku is always trying to fight somebody stronger than him. They aren't content with their current achievements, because they know the answer lies within the journey. This is something I am trying to etch into my own personal character. I don't want to be caught up in the potential of money, fame, and glory. I want to keep working and building, because that is what truly makes me happy.

My Thoughts on AI as a Developer

AWS chief tells employees that most developers could stop coding soon as AI takes over.

In my experience, I've seen a rise in the amount of non-software engineers building actual apps. Whether if its through no-code low code, or full on coding, it is impressive how far you can get with LLM's.

This is not to say that developers will be able to just be hands off their IDE and simply keep prompting until their perfect app is built. Building an application with the assistance of an LLM is one thing, but debugging and fiddling with configurations is another.

Then comes the hosting of an application. Sure you can throw it up on Vercel, but Vercel is just a prettier UI for AWS. You lose your ability to configure your server to your needs and when Vercel hits you with that huge bill after your product goes viral and acquires thousands of users, you may wish that you could have some more customization.

I have yet to see AI fill in these cracks. Even as fullstack developer with the use of LLM's I still struggle to run cloud services efficiently. Until I see AI handle the complexities of cloud computing in a breeze, I am not in agreement that developers will stop having to write code.