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Nobody knows how to build with AI yet

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526 points Stwerner | 3 comments | 19 Jul 25 15:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.428s | source
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saadatq ◴[19 Jul 25 22:51 UTC] No.44620185[source]▶
this isn’t vibe coding. This is something completely new. I call it “flex coding.”

heck I built a full app in an afternoon AND I was a good dad?

> I'd wander into my office, check what Claude had built, test it real quick. If it worked, great! Commit and push. "Now build the server connection UI," I'd say, and wander back out.

Made breakfast. Claude coded.

Played with my son. Claude coded.

Watched some TV. Claude coded.

Every hour or so, I'd pop back in. Five minutes of testing. One minute of feedback.

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yoyohello13 ◴[20 Jul 25 03:31 UTC] No.44621746[source]▶
So like, why would I pay someone to work like this? Or why would I pay for software at all when I could just do this myself?
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1. doug_durham ◴[20 Jul 25 07:14 UTC] No.44622695[source]▶
Because you can't do this yourself. You don't have the decades of experience to know how to ask the questions and when to steer the tool into a different direction.
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2. nairadithya ◴[20 Jul 25 07:48 UTC] No.44622844[source]▶
This is something I've been thinking about. What should students do? How do they build experience? Do they swear off all forms of LLM assisted coding?
3. throw234234234 ◴[20 Jul 25 23:01 UTC] No.44630180[source]▶
Why not? As the AI people say "you can just do things". If there is little consequence to getting it wrong as a parent poster puts it why not? You can learn over time like any other skill.

I want to be wrong (it will affect me and my family personally) - but there is a reason every AI proponent talks about coding and making "coding redundant". For most jobs/industries software is a compliment (e.g. Product Owner, BA, etc) unless that is your main skill in which case it is your main service you are selling. Most roles want to turn software into a commodity or the typical business PM word "resource" that they can acquire as they need - the dream of most business roles (e.g. Project Managers, BA's, etc). It sadly also seems to be low hanging fruit of LLM's; doesn't mean there isn't other aspects to the job of course but coding is becoming "less special" with these technologies especially with common tech and use cases.