Do you know that feeling when you need to add pagination in Bubble?
Install Toolbox plugin
→ create list of numbers
→ wire up "show next" and "show previous"
→ add conditional states
→ debug why page 3 shows wrong items
→ handle filter interactions
→ cry a little.
Hours of work for what should be simple.
With AI code?
One prompt. 10 minutes. Done.
Same mental model in code. But AI handles all the annoying parts.
What really clicked for me: Pagination in Bubble feels complicated because we're clicking through 15 different settings. In code, it's just math. Page 2 = skip first 5 items, show next 5. That's it.
The AI even handled the filter interaction automatically - when you change the status filter, pagination resets to page 1. In Bubble, I would've forgotten that and spent 20 minutes debugging it later.