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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: 0.502s | source
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facefactsdamnit ◴[19 Jul 25 16:23 UTC] No.44616838[source]▶
The only thing that should matter in software development is: does it work to spec?

Why are these chatbots that mangle data 1/3 to 1/2 of the time getting their budgets 10x over and over again?

This is irrational. If the code mangles data this bad, it's garbage.

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1. iLoveOncall ◴[19 Jul 25 18:37 UTC] No.44618134[source]▶
> The only thing that should matter in software development is: does it work to spec?

Unless you've never written code outside of a classroom you should know how unbelievably wrong this is.

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2. timpieces ◴[20 Jul 25 04:51 UTC] No.44622082[source]▶
Maybe it's just semantics, but it doesn't feel so wrong to me. The main nuance is that this statement needs to be true over time as the spec changes. Developers try to write maintainable code so that their code will still work/adapt to spec when the spec changes. Maintainable code feels less important in a world where AI can rewrite a growing portion of your code quickly. I find myself accepting a much lower bar for non-critical parts of my projects with the knowledge that claude can rewrite it quickly if needs change. But disclaimer: I haven't yet used this technique in teams. The norms on usage aren't there yet.