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mrmansanoon Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?

Interesting premise for your product. Hope you find success! From a dev perspective I feel your website pass a vibe more of a "OpenClaw you can trust" than "dev tool for non developers". Is that right? Or am I misreading the idea?

mrmansanoon AI's real superpower: consuming, not creating

> it's pretty obvious that Claude Opus 4.5 level agents replace developers.

Is it though? I really don't see it. Replacing developers requires way more than writing the right code. I can agree it can replace junior to mid level engineers at some tasks, specifically in greenfield projects and popular stacks. And, don't get me wrong, it's very helpful even for senior engineers. But to "replace" those it will require some new iterations of "Opus 4.5".

mrmansanoon Microsoft has urged its employees on H-1B and H-4 visas to return immediately

Anecdotally, although I'm sure it's happening to more people.

I'm Brazilian, I work in the US on H1-B. I'm on vacations in Brazil with my wife and kids, one in school age.

I also came to renew my visa stamp, as I had my extension approved not long ago. My visa is valid from September 21st, so, same day as this proclamation takes effect. And I can't go back before that because my visa is not valid.

My flight was scheduled for tomorrow, and I would land in US by Sep 22nd. Of course, I rescheduled that to not lose my ticket.

I left food in the freezer, car in the garage, and my son is missing classes. And all my family's stuff in the house. Now, I have no idea what will happen, I can't go in to get my things. At least the company is giving support, and I couldn't be more thankful.

But the thing that makes me sadder is the blatant racism towards my Indian friends, reddit and x was swarmed by an army of people that was enabled to call them... whatever they want... It's a good time to be offline now.

The H1-B program has its problems, and I understand the whole frustration with the job market, but this is not they way to solve anything.

mrmansanoon Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video]

It's pastor preaching for the already converted, not new in the area. The only thing new is that they are selling the kool-aid this time.

mrmansanoon My AI skeptic friends are all nuts

> I'm just starting to use Codex Web for asynchronous agents because I have a friend who swears by queueing up a dozen async prompts every morning and sifting through them in the afternoon

Bunch of async prompts for the same task? Or are you parallelizing solving different issues and just reviewing in the afternoon?

Sounds intriguing either way.

mrmansanoon GitHub Copilot Coding Agent

Oh, the savings calculator in your website made me sad, that's the first time I've seen it put that way. I know it's marketing but props to you for being sincere. At least you're not hiding the intentions of your service (like others).

mrmansanoon Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku

That looks pretty cool, congrats! How feasible is it to be a product by itself? Did you try with a local edge model?

mrmansanoon Ask HN: In 2024, is SWE a sustainable career?

Instead, think of AI and robotics as incredibly cheap labor that will be available to just about everyone. So you become an entrepreneur, or the manager of a sophisticated network of teams of robots/AI running on a blockchain. Think about how to leverage these systems to provide goods and services.

This doesn't make sense to me... It is a genuine doubt: if you, and everyone else by extent, have the same ability to create a product or service, that can be easily replicated by AI, what value you are creating? What will you sell? Who will want to buy what you're selling if everyone can make the same thing?

mrmansanoon I Am Tired of AI

I love AI, I use it every single day and wouldn't consider myself a luddite, but... oh, boy... I hate the people that is too bullish on it. Not the people that is working to make the AI happen (although I have my __suspicious people radar__ pointing to __run__ every single time I see Sam Altman face anywhere), but the people that hypes it to ground, the "e/acc" people. I feel like the crypto-bros just moved from the "all-might decentralized coin god" hype to the "all might tech-god that for sure will be available soon". Looks like a cult or religion is forming around the singularity, and, if I hype it now, it will be generous to me when it takes the control. Oh, and if you don't hype then you're a neo-luddite/doomer and I will look up on you with disdain, as you are a mere peasant. Also, the get-rich-quick schemes forming around the idea that anyone can have a "1-person-1-billion-dollar" company with just AI, not realizing when anyone can replicate your product then it won't have any value anymore: "ChatGPT just made me this website to help classify if an image is a hot-dog or not! I'll be rich selling it to Nathan's - Oh, what's that? Nathan's just asked ChatGPT to create a hot-dog classifier for them?!" Not that the other vocal side is not as bad: "AI is useless", "It's not true intelligence", "AI will kill us all", "AI will make everyone unemployed in 6 months!"... But the AI tech-bros side can be more annoying in my personal experience (I'm sure the opposite is true for others too). All those people are tiring, and making AI tiring for some too... But the tech is fun and will keep evolving and present, rather we are tired of it or not.