I’ve been using Sonnet 3.5 to code and I’ve managed to build multiple full fledged apps, including paid ones
Maybe they’re not perfect, but they work and I’ve had no complaints yet. They might not scale to become the next Facebook, but not everything has to scale
Do you think you could you maintain and/or debug someone else's application?
Most of the things I’ve built are fun things
See: GoUnfaked.com and PlaybookFM.com as examples
PlaybookFM.com is interesting because everything from the code to the podcasts to the logo are AI generated
Everyone on HN tells me how LLMs are horrible, yet I’ve saved literally hundreds of hours with them so far. I guess we’re just lucky.
This place is far gone. Some of the most close minded, uncurious people in tech
I don’t think this place deserves to be called “Hacker” News anymore
I played around with LLMs... Found they aren't very useful. Slapping a project together to ship isn't what hacking is about.
Hacking is about deeply understanding what is actually happening under the hood by playing around, taking it apart, rebuilding it.
When the craze started everyone here were out looking for ways to escape the safeties of the LLMs, or discussing how they are being built etc.
This comment thread is about using the technology to slap a thing together so you can sell it. There's no exploration of the topic at hand, there's no attempt to understand.
I'm trying to think of a decent analogy but can't think of one but this smacks of a certain type of friend who finds a technology you have been hacking on and makes it so unbearable that you actually just lose interest...