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Nobody knows how to build with AI yet

(worksonmymachine.substack.com)
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karel-3d ◴[] 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 ◴[] 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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bloppe ◴[] No.44617165[source]
An I the only one who has to constantly tell Claude and Gemini to stop making edits to my codebase because they keep messing things up and breaking the build like ten times in a row, duplicating logic everywhere, etc? I keep hearing about how impressive agents are. I wish they could automate me out of my job faster
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1. exographicskip ◴[] No.44618327[source]
Duplicate logic is definitely a thing. That and littering comments all over the place.

Worth it to me as I can fix all the above after the fact.

Just annoying haha

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2. viraptor ◴[] No.44619891[source]
Ask for no comments. Or extremely infrequent ones for complex sections only. Agreeing with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44619462 here.