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lordnacho ◴[] No.45190513[source]
> at first i was very hopeful i can finally 'build' now with my minimal tech skills

This is the problem. If you couldn't have coded it slowly in the old world, you will have problems coding it in AI world.

However if you have a lot of coding experience, you can now compress the time it would have taken you be an enormous amount. My experience is that I can now make extensive changes with very little effort, and very few dead ends. I've been able to take on entire secondary projects where I was just replication existing knowledge with slightly different tools.

Just this week I had a litmus test. I had an existing database that I'm pushing huge amount of data to. I decided to try a different underlying database. This would have taken me a full week of looking at documentation and writing supporting scripts, now I've done it in the spare time I had in two days of my actual work.

And it's not like the AI just did it all unsupervised. It threatened to do down the wrong path a few times, but each time I spotted it and steered it the way I wanted. I also asked it a few questions about curiosities I discovered in the emitted code, and that led to fixes as well.

If I didn't know how to code before, I would still be coding this alternative database.

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spaceman_2020 ◴[] No.45190926[source]
I have about 6 months of actual coding knowledge via bootcamp. But I’ve seen enough repos that I know what good practices look like.

That’s about enough for me to build out fairly complex products very fast with AI (Claude Code). Claude Code often makes some fundamental mistakes that you wouldn’t be able to catch if you didn’t have any coding experience (like today, it was trying to save large images directly in the database instead of using file storage).

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1. _mu ◴[] No.45191123[source]
> But I’ve seen enough repos that I know what good practices look like.

This is the danger - I get why you think it's true, but it's not true. I've mentored many many bootcamp grads. The biggest danger with y'all is you don't know what you don't know.

Even if you are a really good bootcamp grad and you have good taste and ability, you do not have experience. Software experience is measured really in years and decades, not months.

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2. spaceman_2020 ◴[] No.45194089[source]
I agree. But I’m not making enterprise software - I’m making fun little apps where people can virtually try on clothes. As long as I keep my customers data secure (which I do), I think its okay to vibe code this stuff away.