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Nobody knows how to build with AI yet

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526 points Stwerner | 2 comments | 19 Jul 25 15:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.469s | source
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karel-3d ◴[19 Jul 25 16:32 UTC] No.44616917[source]▶
Reading articles like this feels like being in a different reality.

I don't work like this, I don't want to work like this and maybe most importantly I don't want to work with somebody who works like this.

Also I am scared that any library that I am using through the myriad of dependencies is written like this.

On the other hand... if I look at this as some alternate universe where I don't need to directly or indirectly touch any of this... I am happy that it works for these people? I guess? Just keep it away from me

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lordnacho ◴[19 Jul 25 16:42 UTC] No.44617013[source]▶
But you also can't not swim with the tide. If you drove a horse-buggy 100 years ago, it was probably worth your while to keep your eye on whether motor-cars went anywhere.

I was super skeptical about a year ago. Copilot was making nice predictions, that was it. This agent stuff is truly impressive.

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1. beefnugs ◴[19 Jul 25 17:35 UTC] No.44617514[source]▶
This doesn't make aaaaany sense: IF this actually worked, then why would all the biggest companies in the world be firing people? They would be forcing them all to DO THE TIDE and multiple their 10 billion dollar dominance to 100 billion dollar or more dominance.

The truth is something like: for this to work, there is huge requirements in tooling/infrastructure/security/simulation/refinement/optimization/cost-saving that just could never be figured out by the big companies. So they are just like... well lets trick as many investors and plebs to try to use this as possible, maybe one of them will come up with some breakthrough we can steal

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2. fragmede ◴[19 Jul 25 18:53 UTC] No.44618275[source]▶
> why would all the biggest companies in the world be firing people

Because of section 174, now hopefully repealed. Money makes the world go round, and the money people talk to the people with firing authority.