Hey, I am bgwalter from the anti-AI industrial complex, which is a $10 trillion industry with a strong lobby in DC. I would advise you to use Natural Intelligence, which will be in higher demand after the bubble has burst completely (first steps were achieved by Oracle this week).
Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?
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Re: Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?
#432Earlier quoted context omitted.
I keep asking chatgpt when will LLM reach 95% software creation automation, answer is ten years.
I don't think that long, but yeah, I give it five years. Two years and 3/4 will be not needed anymore
People think they'll have jobs maintaining AI output but i don't see how maintaining is that harder than creating for a llm able to digest requirements and codebase and iterate until a working source runs.
Re: Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?
#433About Svelte, on the svelte subreddit it was reported that GPT 5.2 is better at Svelte, perhaps because it has a more recent knowledge cutoff But anyway you should set up the Svelte MCP
I take these early reports (less than a week or two after a major model release) with a grain of salt. It takes time to get to know a model, and maybe there's some selection bias in who's posting within 1-2 days of getting access. (Although in this particular case, the very different knowledge cutoff makes it a lot easier to believe)
https://old.reddit.com/r/sveltejs/comments/1pkzwqd/gpt52_hug... https://github.com/khromov/svelte-bench https://khromov.github.io/svelte-bench/benchmark-results-mer...
But OpenAI was caught before cheating on benchmarks so indeed it may not mean much
Also the Svelte MCP is https://svelte.dev/docs/mcp/overview IMO it's a must. Besides giving access to up to date documentation, there's a tool that the LLM can call that lints and fixes issues (svelte-autofixer)
Re: Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?
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Sure doesn't seem like it. https://x.com/jarredsumner/status/1999317065237512224 And forget scripting languages, take a C program that writes a string to disk and reads it back. How many times longer does it get the moment we have to ensure the string was actually committed to non-volatile NAND and actually read back? 5x? 10x? Is it even doable if we have to support arbitrary consumer hardware?
You're stretching really hard here to try and rationalize your position First of all, I pick the hardware I support and the operating systems. I can make those things requirements when they are required. But when you boil down your argument, it's that because one thing may introduce non-determinism, then any degree of non-determinism is acceptable. At that point we don't even need LLMs. We can just have the computer…
> A few years ago we didn't have an imprecise nondeterministic programming language that would allow your mom to achieve SOTA results on a wide range of NLP tasks by asking nicely, or I'm sure people would have taken it.
But that (accurate) point makes your point invalid, so you'd rather focus on the dressing.
Re: Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?
#435Earlier quoted context omitted.
my starting point was Google People Management Essentials. I was thinking about team-level politics at work, and noticed some ideas seemed relevant to how teams in orgs can adopt agents. I pursued that idea more widely with other resources and it resonated. I don't think I have any conclusions to share, just the orientation: to identify and actively accommodate the tool's cognitive style in the same way we do for one…
your suggestion is to treat it like a person but (surprise surprise) you don't have any specific ideas of how and why that works. your idea just sounds like marketing
Re: Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?
#436are we following the project’s architectural guidelines?
Is the right visual spacing on every page in the UI?
The better the agent’s tools are at finding problems and informatively (in English) recommending fixes to the agent, the more leveraged you will be.
Re: Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?
#437Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I add to my team’s CLAUDE.md multiple times a week. How big is that file now? How big is too big?
Try to keep it under 1k tokens or so. We will show you a warning if it might be too big. Ours is maybe half that size. We remove from it with every model release since smarter models need less hand-holding. You can also break up your CLAUDE.md into smaller files, link CLAUDE.mds, or lazy load them only when Claude works in nested dirs. https://code.claude.com/docs/en/memory
Re: Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?
#438Re: Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?
#439Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey Boris, can you teach CC how to use cd?
Personally, CLAUDE_BASH_MAINTAIN_PROJECT_WORKING_DIR=1 made all my cd problems go away (which were only really in cmake-based projects to begin with).
Re: Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?
#440Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're stretching really hard here to try and rationalize your position First of all, I pick the hardware I support and the operating systems. I can make those things requirements when they are required. But when you boil down your argument, it's that because one thing may introduce non-determinism, then any degree of non-determinism is acceptable. At that point we don't even need LLMs. We can just have the computer…
No the point was quite clear: > A few years ago we didn't have an imprecise nondeterministic programming language that would allow your mom to achieve SOTA results on a wide range of NLP tasks by asking nicely, or I'm sure people would have taken it. But that (accurate) point makes your point invalid, so you'd rather focus on the dressing.