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Building a Personal AI Factory

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260 points derek | 1 comments | 01 Jul 25 21:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.342s | source
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simonw ◴[02 Jul 25 00:02 UTC] No.44439075[source]▶
My hunch is that this article is going to be almost completely impenetrable to people who haven't yet had the "aha" moment with Claude Code.

That's the moment when you let "claude --dangerously-skip-permissions" go to work on a difficult problem and watch it crunch away by itself for a couple of minutes running a bewildering array of tools until the problem is fixed.

I had it compile, run and debug a Mandelbrot fractal generator in 486 assembly today, executing in Docker on my Mac, just to see how well it could do. It did great! https://gist.github.com/simonw/ba1e9fa26fc8af08934d7bc0805b9...

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low_common ◴[02 Jul 25 01:41 UTC] No.44439544[source]▶
That's a pretty trivial example for one of these IDEs to knock out. Assembly is certainly in their training sets, and obviously docker is too. I've watched cursor absolutely run amok when I let it play around in some of my codebase.

I'm bullish it'll get there sooner rather than later, but we're not there yet.

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simonw ◴[02 Jul 25 02:59 UTC] No.44439886[source]▶
I think the hardest problem in computer science right now may be coming up with an LLM demo that doesn't get called "pretty trivial".
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1. x0x0 ◴[02 Jul 25 18:09 UTC] No.44446970[source]▶
I have one: features I've tried this on in my codebase. Because claude and gemini have both failed pretty badly.

So it's pretty stupid to just assume that critics haven't tried.

Example feature: send analytics events on app start triggered by notifications. Both Gemini and Claude completely failed to understand the component tree; rewrote hundreds of lines of code in broken ways; and even when prompted with the difficulty (this is happening outside of the component tree), failed to come up with a good solution. And even when deliberately prompted not to, like to simultaneously make cosmetic code changes to other pieces of the files they're touching.