I've been building an EMR as a solo dev for a few years now while working at a healthcare agency. The main stakeholders are the CEO (super tech friendly, business type), the owner (nurse for longer than I've been alive) and the other clincians I work with.

What I learned very early on after having direct access to the users was how difficult it was to describe a future state of the application (or fish for pain points) without having something tangible to show/compare. A lot of them have a hard time thinking abstractly about software (and I don't blame them).

A few weeks back, I showed Bolt.new to the CEO and ever since then, our workflow has sped up tremendously. He has the technical know-how and desire to sketch out ideas he thinks will be useful (in lieu of me spending a week to build something up, getting it knocked down, and repeating over and over again). I told him to instruct it to use mock data and it's already using the exact same stack I use (React/Tailwind/React Aria). He knows enough about the process that it's not as simple as building it in Bolt, but also knows how valuable it's been to me.

I'm constitutionally incapable of building a decent UI. So bad that I can take a well designed system and completely screw it up. I just can't extrapolate on designs well (and even got into an argument during an interview with a designer because I mentioned that as one of my weaknesses). Having the ability to go back and forth with a "designer" and not get angry that I'm asking for EXACT examples has been insanely refreshing.

Our goal is to get enough of the app together (while also being mindful of stuff like accessibility) and then bring in the professionals at the end. We've burnt so much money bringing in designers too early, and now we can get to a baseline before asking for help.

I truly believe that we are witnessing another renaissance in software dev. Instead of development being relegated to the big dev companies and FAANG's, the economics of a small company bringing on a software developer are changing enough that it could turn the tide. Instead of one-size-fits-all behemoths, we can now tailor software to the client.

This has been a huge source of frustration in C#.

The BCL-provided DateTime was really confusing, especially when you just needed a Date. They eventually got around to including a DateOnly, but before that happened I switched to a library called "Noda" (or Joda in Java) and after a bit of a learning curve, it made everything a lot easier to reason about.

It has LocalDates and LocalDateTimes, as well as Instants to store UTC times. It also offers ZonedDateTimes, but I don't use those as much. I work in healthcare. And so many regulations involve strictly dates. Like, "You have 5 days to do X", not "You have 120 hours to do X", and as such, storing the time with a lot of this data can add more complexity.

Wow! And yeah I'd imagine Healthcare requires a bit more strictness, you can't really afford an off by one day error, or sometimes even an off by one hour error.

You're absolutely right.

The calculations themselves are usually pretty easy with a few exceptions, it's just that there are TONS of them. And they all slightly depend on each other. And they change. Often.

> but that is the answer that is a consensus among experts

Do you have any resources that back up such a big claim?

> relatively small mount of focus & critical thinking on the issue of how LLMs & other categories of “AI” work.

I don't understand this line of thought. Why wouldn't the ability to recognize patterns in existing literature or scientific publications result in potential new understandings? What critical thinking am I not doing?

> postulate “new” scientific ideas

What are you examples of "new" ideas that aren't based on existing ones?

When you say "other categories of AI", you're not including AlphaFold, are you?

People who don't like "On The Road" should listen to Jack read it in his own voice.

lol People don't realize that Tailwind democratized styling for a lot of people who didn't want to or didn't know how to write CSS. We're not going back to writing hand-crafted CSS with or without LLMs. LLMs, by their nature, work better with Tailwind since it needs a much smaller context to make the right decision.

   > We're not going back to writing hand-crafted CSS with or without LLMs.

A lot of us have never stopped writing hand-crafted CSS. Also, in my experience, Gemini 3 Pro is an absolute monster at writing layouts and styling in pure CSS with very basic descriptions of what I want (tested it while I was experimenting with vibe coding in some sleepless night LOL).

There are still a lot of developers who loathe using Tailwind and avoid touching it like the plague. Handwritten CSS still offers more opportunities for optimization and keeps your markup much cleaner than spamming utility classes everywhere (I understand the appeal of rapidly iterating with it, though).

I apologize, I was being a bit hyperbolic.

I spent a decent amount of time working in marketing and ad agencies, and there are absolutely still needs for custom CSS in that area, so I agree.

I was more pushing back against the idea that Tailwind will be replaced by vanilla CSS because of LLMs.

That I can agree with hahaha. Even though I'm not a fan of Tailwind, there's absolutely no reason developers who like utility libraries will abandon them because of LLMs.

Nah, Tailwind is way more important for LLMs than vanilla CSS.

Models work in contexts. If my context is "my entire app's styling", then it's going to be really difficult to write styles in line unless it's already pretty perfect.

Tailwind doesn't have that problem. It's local. I can define a single theme and KNOW FOR A FACT how something will look before it even touches my code. That's the beauty of utility-like libraries.

I stopped working in marketing and advertising (which DID need custom styles), and went to strictly app dev where my needs completely changed.

One of my favorite HIPAA stories is about a doctor who utilized his patient list when sending out campaign-related information when he was running for local office. Over 2 decades of schooling and still didn't understand how stupid this was.

Just think of the shit he's going to throw against the wall when it's only a few months away. I bet he'll wade into "Cancelling all student loans" or "Legalizing Marijuana" knowing his base is too stupid to understand his intentions.

That's not the point.

He's issued plenty of other executive orders that aren't legal in order to continue to bullshit his base. The reason why he's deferring to congress now (instead of trying to take credit) is because he knows it's not possible and can use that as leverage against members of Congress.

Bolt is what turned me onto it (same with React Aria).