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Nobody knows how to build with AI yet

(worksonmymachine.substack.com)
526 points Stwerner | 4 comments | 19 Jul 25 15:45 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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gabrieledarrigo ◴[19 Jul 25 17:16 UTC] No.44617336[source]▶
I know, it's scary. But I guess it's the direction we are aiming for.
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1. recursive ◴[19 Jul 25 17:37 UTC] No.44617532[source]▶
Just to clarify, I'm not a member of that "we".
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2. gabrieledarrigo ◴[19 Jul 25 20:02 UTC] No.44618833[source]▶
And that's fine, it's your choice. But everything, driven by multiple forces (from hype, to marketing, to real progress, to early adopters) is pointing to that future.
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3. ath3nd ◴[19 Jul 25 23:08 UTC] No.44620315[source]▶
Yes, another web3, crypto and nft "inevitable" futures. Just give Sama a couple more trillion and AGI is juuuust behind the corner.

It's a fact models aren't getting as cost efficient nor better with the same rate that the costs increases of training and running them. It's also a fact that they are so unprofitable that Anthropic feels like they gotta rug-pull your Claude tokens (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44598254#44602695) without telling you, let's just ignore those facts and fanboy with wide-closed about that future.

A future framed as "inevitable" by a bunch of people whose job/wealth depends on framing it as such. Nah, hard pass.

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4. gabrieledarrigo ◴[20 Jul 25 12:23 UTC] No.44624526{3}[source]▶
> A future framed as "inevitable" by a bunch of people whose job/wealth depends on framing it as such. Nah, hard pass.

I agree with you! I'm not saying that I like it; this is the perfect example of turbo capitalism applied to innovation.

I also like to code and to build software, and the joy that comes from the act of creation. Only, I'm quite sure it's not going to last.