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Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?
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#652Daily Claude user via Cursor. What works: -Just pasting the error and askig what's going on here. -"How do I X in Y considering Z?" -Single-use scripts. -Tab (most of the time), although that doesn't seem to be Claude. What doesn't: -Asking it to actually code. It's not going to do the whole thing and even if, it will take shortcuts, occasionally removing legitimate parts of the application. -Tests. Obvious cases it…
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HN is in denial, which is understandable AI is already better at understanding code than 99.99% of human, the more I use it the more I believe this is true. It can draw connections between dots far quicker and accurate than a human could ever be. At very least, AI is going to be a must even as a co-supervisor to your project What in doubt right now, is whether AI can manage a codebase fully autonomously without bring…
> AI is already better at understanding code than 99.99% of human not to nitpick here, but AI does not understand code. AI (LLMs) are token predictors pr at best sophisticated pattern matching in huge search space...
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If Claude Code can parse these design documents, I would recommend making a skill to do an adversarial review of the document. Then just generate that review, do some minor edits to make it look like a human wrote it and send it back to them.
Which is fine if we are fine with pretending to do our jobs. But deep down I know that slop is noise and words no longer represent understanding.
not everything is slop, sometimes you can just use it like a brainstorm session to see if you missed something.
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The accurate inferences that can be drawn from subtle linguistic attributes should freak you out more than they do.
Switching one good synonym can send the model off an entirely different direction in response, or so I’ve observed.
If I could give an LLM to any historical figure, I would give it to Nietzsche.
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>so you can make fries and ketchup from the same plant! We should be friends. I like your ideas.
I'm always looking for people to share my weird ideas that have absolutely nothing to do with software or computers. Unfortunately my only friends are all software people who have no interest outside of computers. Something I've found to have very little interest in anymore.
I moved out of software things myself and now do things around the home and outside more and more.