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> No more AI thought pieces until you tell us what you build!

Let me fix that for you:

No more AI thought pieces until you SHOW us what you build!

And I think it can safely be generalised to:

No more thought pieces until you show us what you build!

And that goes double for posts on LinkedIn.

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I’d take it even further: I want to see the prompts! I’ll concede we’ve arrived at a point where the coding agents work, but I’m still unconvinced they’re actually saving anyone time. From my AI-pilled coworkers, it appears they’re all spending half an hour creating a plan with hyper-specific prompts, like “make this specific change to lines XXX-YYY in this file”, “move this function over here and change the args”, etc. As far as I can tell, this is current best practice, and I’ve tried it, but I’m always disappointed with the either the quality or the speed, usually both.

Look learning vim is hard some people just want to describe their edits using natural language.

Yea, if I were interested in that level of micromanagement, I would have become a manager.

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