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378 points todsacerdoti | 3 comments | 22 Aug 25 07:08 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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anymouse123456 ◴[22 Aug 25 13:36 UTC] No.44984528[source]▶
AI has been great for UX prototypes.

Get something stood up quickly to react to.

It's not complete, it's not correct, it's not maintainable. But it's literal minutes to go from a blank page to seeing something clickable-ish.

We do that for a few rounds, set a direction and then throw it in the trash and start building.

In that sense, AI can be incredibly powerful, useful and has saved tons of time developing the wrong thing.

I can't see the future, but it's definitely not generating useful applications out of whole cloth at this point in time.

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1. criddell ◴[22 Aug 25 13:52 UTC] No.44984721[source]▶
For me it's useful in those areas I don't venture into very often. For example I needed a powershell script recently that would create a little report of some registry settings. Claude banged out something that worked perfectly for me and saved me an hour of messing around.
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2. humpty-d ◴[22 Aug 25 14:04 UTC] No.44984842[source]▶
It’s useful for almost any one-off script I write. It can do the work much faster than me and produce nicer looking output than I’d ever bother to spend time to write myself. It can also generate cli args and docs I’d never "waste time" on myself, which I’d later waste even more time fumbling without

They’re insanely useful. I don’t get why people pretend otherwise, just because they aren't fulfilling the prophesies of blowhards and salesmen

3. chasd00 ◴[22 Aug 25 18:41 UTC] No.44988190[source]▶
yeah they work pretty well for scripts. I use claude to create scripts i need for .csv transforms and things. Like read all these files in a directory, merge them together on some key and convert this to that and all kinds of things and then output a csv with the following header row. For things like that they work pretty well.