Such low level grunt work is what AI is good for, no one denies that.
What some of us are saying is that AI is poor at figuring out what to build, how best to architecture it, and what to avoid.
Such low level grunt work is what AI is good for, no one denies that.
What some of us are saying is that AI is poor at figuring out what to build, how best to architecture it, and what to avoid.
Again, no, "what to build" is the humans input, but it's not just grunt work that modern AI tooling is good at... Architecture and what to avoid are also strengths of AI.
> Architecture and what to avoid are also strengths of AI.
Absolutely not at all. Every single day that I work with Claude, there is abundant evidence that AI sucks at these. Ask me for examples if you need them.
Yes, please provide examples.
See these comments of mine, which I added exactly for cases like these where someone asks for evidence:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50220976
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50165791
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50159827
The first links shows a basic failure of reasoning, which would have gone unnoticed if I was just vibe-coding.
The second link shows weak architectural sense and an inability to see the big picture.
The last link in particular is telling: the agents worked with me (over weeks to months) to implement a db abstraction layer without ever bringing up the fact that as it stands, that would have never worked with any indexes at all. I did not constrain them to my choices, but they never stopped me with that design. It took my eagle-eyed attention to their offhand comments to notice this problem, which then required a lot of rework to fix.
Unfortunately, all three comments have apparently been flagged by somebody for some reason and I can't read them. This is my least favorite aspect of hacker news. It's exhausting, honestly.
Like a sibling comment replied, you can set "showdead" to "yes" on your profile and click update" so see flagged comments. Not sure why they were flagged.
I have read that comments which appear to have been written by an LLM are auto-filtered. As these appear to mostly consist of quotations of LLM output, I expect this would be why.
I suggest putting them on a blog or something and linking to that, rather than HN comments.
Go to your profile, and you can set a flag 'showdead' as = yes. Then you'll be able to see flagged/dead comments.
For flagged threads, you can go to:
https://news.ycombinator.com/active
I'm old enough to remember when things such as this were not considered "low level grunt work".