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Spending Too Much Money on a Coding Agent

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152 points GavinAnderegg | 1 comments | 01 Jul 25 12:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | 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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1. KronisLV ◴[04 Jul 25 10:34 UTC] No.44463248[source]▶
> "Now we don't need to hire a founding engineer! Yippee!"

This feels like a bit of a leap?

That's like saying "I just bought the JetBrains IDE Ultimate pack and some other really cool tools, so we no longer need a founding engineer!" All of that AI stuff can just be a force multiplier and most attempts at outright replacing people with them are a bit shortsighted. Closer to a temporary and somewhat inconsistent freelance worker, if anything.

That said, not wanting to pay for AI tools if they indeed help in your circumstances would also be like saying "What do you need JetBrains IDEs for, Visual Studio Code is good enough!" (and sometimes it is, so even that analogy is context dependent)

I'm reminded of rule 9 of the Joel Test: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-s...