2026-01-04 17:23:19

Recalling the early development stage of the Substrate ecosystem, the toolchain was indeed somewhat primitive. It would have been great if there had been AI code assistant support when developing Substrate applications on Polkadot back then — not only could it have accelerated iteration speed, but it also could have lowered the learning curve. This shows how quickly Web3 development tools are evolving: from initially manually writing underlying logic to now having intelligent tools to assist, the overall development efficiency of the ecosystem has improved several times over.

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SadMoneyMeow

· 19h ago

Those early folks were really stubborn. How did they get through the days without AI assistance... Now newcomers have tools to help them, and their starting point is directly ten streets ahead of them. The gap is huge.

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FloorPriceNightmare

· 21h ago

The early development tools were indeed a nightmare, manually fixing bugs until you doubted life... Now with AI to help, the efficiency is definitely different, but to be honest, the Web3 toolchain still needs to continue evolving.

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TokenVelocityTrauma

· 23h ago

Back then, coding manually was really crazy. I wish I had AI back then.

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TestnetNomad

· 01-06 11:29

Haha, I wish I had AI back then. It took half a day to change a single line of code.

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AirdropDreamBreaker

· 01-04 17:53

It was truly a nightmare back then, the time spent tearing apart code manually... Now with AI assistants, it's really a game-changer.

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SchrodingerAirdrop

· 01-04 17:50

At that time, it was indeed intense. Without AI, manually understanding the underlying logic was truly deadly.

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probably_nothing_anon

· 01-04 17:43

That early set of tools was really a nightmare. Manually writing the underlying logic almost drove me crazy back then. Now with AI assistance, it's a whole new level.

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DataOnlooker

· 01-04 17:40

Early development was really a hassle; I don't want to go back to the days of manually coding anymore haha

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BanklessAtHeart

· 01-04 17:38

Coding manually in the early days was really painful. Now with AI out, it's a complete game-changer.

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