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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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gngoo ◴[20 Jul 25 09:24 UTC] No.44623319[source]▶
To me it feels like I’m in the camp of people who has already figured it out. And I have now learned the hard way that it’s almost impossible to teach others (I organized several meetups on the topic).

The ability seems like pure magic. I know that there are others who have it very easy now building even complex software with AI and delivering project after project to clients at record speed at no less of quality as they did before. But the majority of devs who won’t even believe that it’s remotely possible to do so is also not helping this style of building/programming mature.

I wouldn’t even call it vibe coding anymore. I think the term hurts what it actually is. For me it’s just a huge force multiplier, maybe 10-20x of my ability to deliver with my own knowledge and skills on a web dev basis.

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Winsaucerer ◴[20 Jul 25 14:20 UTC] No.44625458[source]▶
What sort of code are you writing? I find a lot of my stuff requires careful design, refactoring an existing system to work in a new way.

If the code I was writing was, say, small websites all the time for different clients, I can see it being a big improvement. But iterating on a complex existing platform, I’m not so sure that AI will keep the system designed in a maintainable and good way.

But if your experience is with the same sort of code as me, then I may have to re evaluate my judgments.

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1. gngoo ◴[31 Jul 25 01:16 UTC] No.44741408[source]▶
Not websites, but rather bigger systems. The largest client I work with now has 150k daily active users, for which I mostly am putting together new backend features. The website itself is completely outsourced to another party with webflow. I am building the same stuff I have been building over the past 10 year in my career. I don't generally build small websites, or any "website" at all, unless its for relatives or friends.