Nobody knows how to build with AI yet

(worksonmymachine.substack.com)

526 points Stwerner | 1 comments | 19 Jul 25 15:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.229s | 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]▶

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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. fzeroracer ◴[19 Jul 25 18:40 UTC] No.44618157[source]▶

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Sometimes it's a good thing to not swim with the tide. Enshittification comes from every single dipshit corporation racing to the bottom, and right now said tide is increasingly filling with sewage.

There's a huge disconnect I notice where experienced software engineers rage about how shitty things are nowadays while diving directly into using AI garbage, where they cannot explain what their code is doing if their lives depended on it.

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