Is programming obsolete, or is it needed more then ever becasue we need to fix all the crap generated. Let's just all follow up at the end of the year.
Itll be quiet though if we're still hand writing code though I think
So - where is it all? Where's all the 10 years of software dev that happened over the last year? Where's the companies blowing their competitors out of the water by compressing a decade of production into a year?
The proof is in the pudding. Or lack thereof. If the claims were anything like they say, we'd see something by now.
You can write lots of code with an LLM.
"I did ~20 PRs yesterday all coded by AI"
I guess anthropic makes you use a pull request for minor code changes.
Anthropic over billed me by $300 last month.
(Suffice to say I passed on Claude/Claude Code for the time being.)
You shouldn't hold your breath for that job offer
It is the same as writing a story. It ain't gonna win The Hugo Award. We know it is AI, full of cliches and corporate speak. I think the difference is people are used to crap code, where as they won't read a crap book.
Most code is crap because 1) engineers don't care about the software 2) high turn over 3) getting rushed
So maybe AI just generates code at the level most people are used to, I have no idea because compared to my code Claude code is bad, but bad is not useless. I put the bad code in its little corner and it if it does its job it is fine.
also insert into prompts (or in the base prompt) someting like (e.g. example from my Claude setup) >>
- Configuration as data, logic as loops
- Dynamic rendering (adapts to data size/content)
- Single source of truth (no scattered magic numbers)
- Defensive coding (null checks, division by zero)
- O(1) lookups over O(n) searches where possible
therefore what I hear from an announcment like this is "we have stopped innovating".
this is a bad sign, not a good sign.
Is Claude Cowork not innovation? https://www.reddit.com/r/accelerate/comments/1qbg9bu/anthrop... https://jpcaparas.medium.com/the-claude-code-creator-says-ai...
is this not innovation? >> https://openai.com/prism/
A better argument might be that greenfield applications are currently way easier for AI to build out, I do concede that point.
if some dude is writing 100% of their code using ai, then i stand by my point in that they're not doing anything novel.
Sad that HN is so far behind the times but better late than never
They use all those spare brain tokens testing the product behaves correctly, right?
Right?!
Apparently cursor keeps track and Opus4.5 is the model our top 3 devs use.
It is like a 180 degree different mindset than what typical SWE requires.
