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obsolete_wagie··on A Research Preview of Codex
You need someone thats technical to look at the agent output, senior engineers will be around. Junior engineers are certainly being replaced
obsolete_wagie··on AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms
Yup. Its coming. Any verifiable human skill will be done by ai.
obsolete_wagie··on Just use HTML
its more fundamental than this, ai can certainly take an orm and replace it with generated sql. it can do the same for react components into html (still early days for this though).
obsolete_wagie··on Just use HTML
this negativity around ai software is misplaced, and will be on the wrong side of history. the trend is ai built software that will be better than human built. vibe coding is just early adoption
obsolete_wagie··on Just use HTML
once AI reaches a certain level of accuracy, it will seem foolish to make it use abstractions built for humans
obsolete_wagie··on Just use HTML
I think of LLMs as a compiler of language into code, it can generate lower level code than we would normally build
obsolete_wagie··on Just use HTML
"AI's out here, a gift from the heavens (or at least from Sam Altman's nerd fortress) ready to write your shitty little to-do app in five seconds flat. It can churn out pixel-perfect HTML, debug your fuck-ups, and probably even wipe your ass if you ask nicely. But no, you're still humping your frameworks like they're the last lifeboat on the Titanic."

Personal opinion is that AI will reduce the need for higher abstraction software libraries. ORMs for instance could go away. We will see wildly different software paradigms as the need for human understanding drops

obsolete_wagie··on Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?
apollo.io
obsolete_wagie··on Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview
you just arent using the models to their full capacity if you think this, benchmarks have all been hacked
obsolete_wagie··on Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview
use the models daily, its not even close
obsolete_wagie··on Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview
o3 is so far ahead of antrhopic and google, these models arent even worth using
obsolete_wagie··on FastAPI Cloud: deploying FastAPI apps with just a single command
Is there demand for this? It could be replaced with a simple IaC script