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Amazing. I bet this can really help thousands of programmers who are simply not needed, because companies decided to replace them with AI agents. These philosophical ponders are very comfortable to do when your ass is safe. Most of people don’t have this privilege.

> what if what we loved about this job was never only the code?

It never was the code. The code is how you solve problems, make stuff happen. The code is a tool. It’s people’s brain that is of value. People learn how to use these tools the best they can. And now they are told that they should become mere supervisors for the AI agents. Simply by trusting the output and QA-ing the result. Because no human can keep track of the AI’s generated mess.

> I was frustrated with writing apps

Oh my hod… This absolutely AI generated intro.

I can understand startups relying on AI tools to test out the ideas. But personal/hobby projects? Feels weird. This is not the place to go fast. Take your time, enjoy the process, learn/make things.

I don’t believe you.

Considering the amount of AI used, it’s hard to call it a passion. You don’t delegate the whole project to AI if it’s your passion. I see stuff like this on different subreddits every day. The overall look and feel matches perfectly a one-off vibe coded project.

Never thought that people on HN would be seriously discussing an obviously vibe coded thing.

> Good engineers have become more valuable because AI lets them move much faster. They don't need as many people around them just to do the implementation work anymore.

This would be true if the goal was to get good working code faster. But the actual goal is to get any code faster. So, in reality, it doesn’t matter whether you are a good or a bad engineer. It just amplified how good you are at manipulating the hiring process with your fine tuned resume and how smoothly you can talk your way through.

I did. Only 1 replied.

The govs consist of people who have their own agendas. Mass surveillance is something they all are aligned on.

What’s up with filtering of clearly low effort AI posts here?

Every now and then I see this crap here. And people even engage into discussion. This is ridiculous.

> They’re going to land an in person interview

Not necessarily. It can be either an AI interview or a record that will be analysed by AI later. So there’s a chance to cheat here as well.

My first thought. The title is so typical for this kind of projects.

Do you want me to spend time to come with a quality response to a lazy statement? It’s like fighting with windmills. I’m fine with having my say the way I did.

I just want people making statements like the author to be more specific how exactly the llms are being used. Otherwise they contribute to this belief that llms are a magical tool that can do anything.

I am aware of simple routine tasks that LLMs can do. This doesn’t change anything about what I said.

> Even if LLMs make mistakes, the ability of LLMs to deliver useful code and hints improved to the point most skeptics started to use LLMs anyway

Here we go again. Statements with the single source in the head of the speaker. And it’s also not true. The llms still produce bad/irrelevant code at such rate that you can spend more time prompting than doing things yourself.

I’m tired of this overestimation of llms.

This whole thing worldwide will lead to division in the society and to people having secret social media accounts. Only the most lazy and stupid ones will be handing over their private data to any gov security forces.

That's what I'm thinking every time I hear or have to use the term "AI". It is not intelligent, but everyone is so used to call it so. LLM is much better.

Graphene requires a Pixel device. I can hardly call it accessible.

7 hours is not bad, considering my iPhone 13 mini can only last for day with occasional usage.

It would be great if all these companies contributed to a some kind of a unified modular platform like Project ARA. I see a lot of new devices, but they all do their own stuff. They produce hardware for their software, the end result is the same as with big brands. Most of these devices are usable while they are supported by these companies. Some of them allow installing custom Android roms, but not many.

Looks like the market just gets more fragmented without any improvements towards better sustainability/reusability. The only thing that really caught my attention recently was Pilet, a handheld Raspberry Pi. That's a really cool thing, that gives mobility while maintaining functionality.

By victim blaming I meant some comments here. I can relate to the author, and the narrative that it's my fault for trying to be myself and keep to my ways triggers me.

Wow. I turned on the randomized tracks under the "Deconstructing 1/2" and it's beautiful.

Wishing these guys all the best. It's not just about following the market. It's about the ability to just be yourself. When everyone around you is telling you that you just have to start doing something and it's not even about the moral side of that thing. You simply just don't want to do it. Yeah, yeah, it's a cruel world. But this doesn't mean that we all need to victim blame everyone who doesn't feel comfortable in this trendy stream.

I hope things with the AI will settle soon and there will be applications that actually make sense and some sort of new balance will be established. Right now it's a nightmare. Everyone wants everything with the AI.

True. But so far I haven't faced layouts that I could not implement using flexbox.

I use flexbox for grid purposes, simply because the syntax is straightforward and easy to read. Yeah, it’s one dimension, but if you nest it, it becomes two with no issues.

I never found it comfortable to work with grids. The syntax and layout just feel off. Flexbox is a much more flexible and easy thing to work with.

I’m going to use it on iOS and macOS. Feels like the previous Safari.

On Linux I’ll keep to Firefox.

For me this feels irrelevant. These tools are marketed for developers for their day-to-day jobs that involve building products. Devs don't look up information on people or build some complex mathematical things daily. They build things that consist of different parts, which in turn can consist of different contexts and can be a combination of other things as well. It can be a straightforward approach or it can be a legacy codebase that also need to incorporate new features with new stacks. The real test is in the real world scenarios. But every time it's about a narrowly scoped thing, the tests, the marketing. And they try to build an image that the combination of these scoped tasks can somehow bring you the ability to build at large scale. They don't say it, but they implicitly mean it with the way they present all this. Computers can compute, they can detect patterns and do analytics part, they can build assumptions based on the data they have. But they need the data, they need parameters, they need not only an operator, they need the source for the material they base their computations and output on. And somehow all the marketing completely ignores this fact. And this is damaging.

This is amazing. Once a company that built its reputation on quality and performance wants to focus on that. iOS became a parody of itself. 26 feels like a cheap knockoff of an iOS. Hundreds of people get paid to enshitify experience for millions of users. That’s incredible. And then they simply say that yeah you know it’s time to work on quality and performance. Isn’t it what always had to be there in the first place? Ridiculous.

Why do you need LLM to interpret patterns?

> Why doesn’t someone else create a competing app that’s better and thereby steal all their business?

Because this someone will start doing the same thing.

The article feels like a very naive perspective.