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Nobody knows how to build with AI yet

(worksonmymachine.substack.com)
526 points Stwerner | 2 comments | 19 Jul 25 15:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | 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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vitaflo ◴[19 Jul 25 17:32 UTC] No.44617482[source]▶
>I don't want to work with somebody who works like this.

You will most likely get your wish but not in the way you want. In a few years when this is fully matured there will be little reason to hire devs with their inflated salaries (especially in the US) when all you need is someone with some technical know-how and a keen eye on how to work with AI agents. There will be plenty of those people all over the globe who will demand much less than you will.

Hate to break it to you but this is the future of writing software and will be a reckoning for the entire software industry and the inflated salaries it contains. It won't happen overnight but it'll happen sooner than many devs are willing to admit.

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hooverd ◴[20 Jul 25 04:59 UTC] No.44622114[source]▶
> some technical know-how

how do they develop the technical know-how? how will you review the AI agents when you understand nothing?

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1. vitaflo ◴[20 Jul 25 16:20 UTC] No.44626650{3}[source]▶
How do you review the machine code generated by the compiler?
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2. hooverd ◴[20 Jul 25 17:38 UTC] No.44627399[source]▶
surely you can appreciate the difference between a compiler and a non-deterministic natural language interface?