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Nobody knows how to build with AI yet

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526 points Stwerner | 1 comments | 19 Jul 25 15:45 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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fmbb ◴[19 Jul 25 16:11 UTC] No.44616724[source]▶
That time dilation feels a bit like what METR reported:

https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-o...

Developers believe they complete tasks 25% faster with AI but when measured they are 19% slower when using AI.

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logicchains ◴[19 Jul 25 16:20 UTC] No.44616807[source]▶
It depends on how the AI is used; there's a huge difference in productivity between a structured workflow with repeated automated feedback to the AI, and just ad-hoc prompting. For instance, Gemini 2.5 coding up a spec-compliant HTTP2.0 server in two weeks: https://outervationai.substack.com/p/building-a-100-llm-writ... . 15k lines of code and 30k lines of tests; no human coder could produce something like that so fast.
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1. fmbb ◴[20 Jul 25 05:19 UTC] No.44622197[source]▶
I would not say that is ”how the AI is used”. That problem space is one where humans have spent unusually much time defining a spec and writing a test suite.

A million monkeys randomly typing could actually complete that task as well.