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378 points todsacerdoti | 1 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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criddell ◴[22 Aug 25 13:52 UTC] No.44984721[source]▶

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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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1. chasd00 ◴[22 Aug 25 18:41 UTC] No.44988190[source]▶

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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.

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