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Spending Too Much Money on a Coding Agent

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152 points GavinAnderegg | 2 comments | 01 Jul 25 12:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.417s | source
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iamleppert ◴[03 Jul 25 17:51 UTC] No.44457545[source]▶
"Now we don't need to hire a founding engineer! Yippee!" I wonder all these people who are building companies that are built on prompts (not even a person) from other companies. The minute there is a rug pull (and there WILL be one), what are you going to do? You'll be in even worse shape because in this case there won't be someone who can help you figure out your next move, there won't be an old team, there will just be NO team. Is this the future?
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dotnet00 ◴[03 Jul 25 19:19 UTC] No.44458319[source]▶
Probably similar to the guy who was gloating on Twitter about building a service with vibe coding and without any programming knowledge around the peak of the vibe coding madness.

Only for people to start screwing around with his database and API keys because the generated code just stuck the keys into the Javascript and he didn't even have enough of a technical background to know that was something to watch out for.

IIRC he resorted to complaining about bullying and just shut it all down.

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1. marcosscriven ◴[03 Jul 25 20:03 UTC] No.44458693[source]▶
What service was this?
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2. dotnet00 ◴[03 Jul 25 20:29 UTC] No.44458898[source]▶
Looks like I misremembered the shutting down bit, but it was this guy: https://twitter.com/leojr94_/status/1901560276488511759

Seems like he's still going on about being able to replicate billion dollar companies' work quickly with AI, but at least he seems a little more aware that technical understanding is still important.