←back to thread

We put a coding agent in a while loop

(github.com)
425 points sfarshid | 8 comments | 24 Aug 25 16:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.229s | source | bottom
Show context
VincentEvans ◴[24 Aug 25 16:36 UTC] No.45005596[source]▶
There will be a a new kind of job for software engineers, sort of like a cross between working with legacy code and toxic site cleanup.

Like back in the day being brought in to “just fix” a amalgam of FoxPro-, Excel-, and Access-based ERP that “mostly works” and only “occasionally corrupts all our data” that ambitious sales people put together over last 5 years.

But worse - because “ambitious sales people” will no longer be constrained by sandboxes of Excel or Access - they will ship multi-cloud edge-deployed kubernetes micro-services wired with Kafka, and it will be harder to find someone to talk to understand what they were trying to do at the time.

replies(16): >>45005632 #>>45005830 #>>45009697 #>>45009999 #>>45010075 #>>45010738 #>>45010794 #>>45011192 #>>45011626 #>>45011943 #>>45012386 #>>45013129 #>>45014577 #>>45014613 #>>45014836 #>>45015644 #
1. Jtsummers ◴[24 Aug 25 16:39 UTC] No.45005632[source]▶
Superfund repos.
replies(3): >>45006231 #>>45008333 #>>45010003 #
2. throwup238 ◴[24 Aug 25 17:54 UTC] No.45006231[source]▶
Now that's an open source funding model governments can get behind.
3. binary132 ◴[24 Aug 25 22:23 UTC] No.45008333[source]▶
A lot of big open source repos need to be given the superfund treatment
replies(1): >>45012113 #
4. cruffle_duffle ◴[25 Aug 25 03:46 UTC] No.45010003[source]▶
What makes you so sure it will have a repo?

I don’t recall the last time Claude suggested anything about version control :-)

replies(2): >>45011093 #>>45011166 #
5. mcny ◴[25 Aug 25 07:03 UTC] No.45011093[source]▶
Claude will give what you asked for. My sensible chuckle moment was when I asked it to create a demo asp net web API and it did everything but add the authorize tag or any kind of authentication. I asked what was missing and until i mentioned it, it didn't mention authentication or authorization at all.
replies(1): >>45013078 #
6. Traubenfuchs ◴[25 Aug 25 07:13 UTC] No.45011166[source]▶
"As per my last email that contained the code claude wrote in a .pdf file I would like you to ask to fix two different users being able to see each others data if they are logged in at the same time, thank you for your attention in this matter."
7. notachatbot123 ◴[25 Aug 25 09:52 UTC] No.45012113[source]▶
A whole bigger lot of closed source software needs to be given the superfund treatment!
8. LtWorf ◴[25 Aug 25 12:23 UTC] No.45013078{3}[source]▶
> Claude will give what you asked for.

And how many know they need to ask for version control?