Sure, most sites have some kind of REST implementation, but that’s not really what I’m thinking. Of course, AI is good at something incredibly well documented, like REST, WebSockets, or whatever networking protocol it might be. This is the sort of stuff that AI really excels at.
Maybe you only use AI for basic web development.
I’m thinking more in terms of logic-based programming. Building a Markdown parser and using it with a live preview engine similar to Obsidian where it only displays the Markdown syntax on selection. It’s something I’ve been working on recently. AI (Sonnet 4.5 to be more specific) gives a pretty solid foundation, but getting it working with pure AI seems more or less impossible.
This is what I mean when I say that a non-programmer cannot build a complex app using just AI. You need to understand the code, otherwise you’re not getting anywhere, unless it’s a simple website with some fetching of data.