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Comment #48349138
What currently happens looks really scary. The level of technical skills needed to make and deploy app in production dropped a lot. Everybody are trying to make something. This can…
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I created a 126K line Android app with AI – the workflow that worked for me
I really wanted to see how far I can go. Can I create a meaningful and complex application, big enough, but without knowing the language. I have 18+ years of experience as software…
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Comment #48140755
I am working as contractor for the last 15-16 years. And each new project starts with interview. I have been on around 20+ . Most of the time, I just read again the most basic staf…
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Comment #48140685
I will :) Sometimes, I really need someone to tell me that it makes sense. I hit so many walls trying to make this idea publicly visible, that I almost become desperate. Most of th…
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Comment #48140458
I guess it is related to the model as well? Is it Sonnet or Opus? Sometimes the old Opus 4.6 gives more appropriate results.
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Comment #48118546
I am working on two things in parallel. https://howareu.app/ is the first one. Of course, struggling with the making it publicly known and trusted. ;) And the other thing I just st…
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Comment #48077853
This is always the struggle. To implement it is not like promote it. Making the product publicly visible and known is actually the harder part. Be consistent, try on multiple place…
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Show HN: Is he OK? Senior safety monitoring app
My grandmother felt on the ground one day, there was nobody around her. My wife's grandfather had his health issues and all were concerned about him. And now my parents. What if so…
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Comment #48061613
Sometimes, I get bored. Writing code was so much fun. Trying to figure out, how to resolve the issue, and they feel the excitement, the joy when the task is done. This is now gone.…
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Comment #48041230
At 40+ , especially if you have kids and other responsibilities, just going back t school is really, really hard. I may also say, impossible. I tried to learn German a few years ag…
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Comment #48026946
The problem is not the AI/LLMs technologies. It is the greed. Earn more money, and the money to be more important than the people. It is not a capitalism thing. It is bad culture, …
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Comment #48018518
Everything is based on the requirements and available resources. One of our clients decided that calling the AI so often takes time, and money, and this does not work for him. AI c…
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Comment #48018483
There is Javascript interpreter, caches and other memory consuming things ;)
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Comment #48013826
I would be happy to see some prove that this works. A project that started and went go. How a friendlier specification looks like and why agents understand it better.
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Comment #48008880
This is cool. The plan written as algorithm. Pro-activity is the key. Usually, people like to stay in their comfort zone. This guy was searching for his, and found it. I wonder, wh…
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Comment #47966778
If you love it, do it. It is not that easy to find a job as before, but if you are good and pro-active, and with passion, money will come... no matter what you actually do.
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Comment #47966733
You have good approaches. I created a slash commands that I run, and explicitly wrote to be executed with Sonnet. I also compact manually, and try to keep the session short. But le…
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Comment #47966640
Anthropic's whole subscription plans, models, performances, and token usage are lately a big issue for everybody. They started so good, now a lot of people are pissed off. You are …
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Comment #47959317
Is it really possible to review and choose a product that works for you these days?! :)
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