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by zachwills 1y ago
Great points -- thanks for contributing to the discussion. It's an internal app with auth, ties to LLMs for analysis, ties to 3rd party data sources for aggregation of data, etc. It's not a Slackbot! It's actually something t
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by zachwills 1y ago
Not being controversial, but I genuinely believe it's user error when it's pure slop. There are too many people delivering real value with it for that not to be the case. I think there is an art to how you prompt, what problems yo
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by zachwills 1y ago
It's an internal tool we're using at my company. Generally offers automatic insights into work being done. I will share more about it when I can!
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by zachwills 1y ago
Thanks for sharing your perspective. I don't agree that code generated by AI will be easily distinguishable from code generated by hand; I think it depends on who is authoring. Also, for what it's worth, if it achieves the busines
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by zachwills 1y ago
You're 100% right; there are ways to move quickly without using AI to write the code. I also agree with you that you need to know what you're doing. If you're a total newbie you likely won't get as far using Laravel or s
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by zachwills 1y ago
My process is to dictate and word vomit all of my thoughts to AI (in this case Gemini 2.5 Pro) and then refine from there. I know there's some amount of "smells like AI" in the writing, but at this point I don't think it
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by zachwills 1y ago
Hey HN, author here. I spent last week in a deep-dive experiment to see how far I could push modern agentic workflows on a greenfield project. I wanted to move past simple code generation and see if I could build a system where I was orches
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I built a production app in a week by managing a swarm of 20 AI agents(zachwills.net)
17 points by zachwills 1y ago|58 comments
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by zachwills 1y ago
Agreed with your mindset. I understand people being afraid of change; the world we live in is going to change over the next few years. Personally, though, I'd rather ride the wave than get knocked over by it.
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by zachwills 1y ago
Thanks for sharing that perspective. In my experience there are noticeable gaps.
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by zachwills 1y ago
I'm curious - do you think the expectations are not shifting?
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The New Bar for Engineers in 2025: AI-Native or Behind(zachwills.net)
6 points by zachwills 1y ago|6 comments
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by zachwills 2y ago
From the perspective of an engineer- do a listening tour. Learn as much as you can. Shadow meetings. From there you’ll start to see where you can have an impact.