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Re: Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back

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Post by ikidd »

Same here. Farmer now, former network engineer and software project lead, but I stopped programming almost 20 years ago.

Now I build all sorts of apps for my farm and organizations I volunteer for. I can pound out an app for tracking sample locations for our forage associations soil sample truck, another for moisture monitoring, a fleet task/calendar/maintenance app in hours and iterate on them when I think of features.

And git was brand new when I left the industry, so I only started using it recently to any extent, and holy hell, is it ever awesome!

I'm finally able to build all the ideas I come up with when I'm sitting in a tractor and the GPS is steering.

Seriously exciting. I have a hard time getting enough sleep because I hammer away on new ideas I can't tear myself away from.

Re: Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back

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Post by bigDinosaur »

ivcatcher wrote: post #10
mk12 wrote: post #8

The "knowledge base" at the bottom is 100% slop. Why? Why inflict this on people?

Yeah, you're right — that part is pretty rough. I wanted to help people actually understand compound interest (it's kind of life-changing once it clicks), but I got lazy and let AI do it without proper editing. Defeats the whole point. I'll figure out a better way. Thanks for calling it out.

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Re: Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back

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Post by wahnfrieden »

ivcatcher wrote: post #18
groggo wrote: post #13

Congrats! I never stopped coding, but AI makes it way more productive and fun for sure. $100 seems like a lot. I guess if you think about it compared to dev salaries, it's nothing. But for $10 per month copilot you can get some pretty great results too.

$100 did feel steep at first. I tried other models but Opus 4 with extended thinking just hits different — it actually gets what I'm trying to do and the code often works first try. Hard to go back after that.

Wait until you try Codex XHigh for $200 (with 5.2 Pro as oracle)

Re: Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back

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Post by dang »

bigDinosaur wrote: post #22
ivcatcher wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, you're right — that part is pretty rough. I wanted to help people actually understand compound interest (it's kind of life-changing once it clicks), but I got lazy and let AI do it without proper editing. Defeats the whole point. I'll figure out a better way. Thanks for calling it out.

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Please don't be hostile to newcomers. That's a way to destroy this place.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back

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Post by murukesh_s »

rob wrote: post #9
mk12 wrote: post #8

The "knowledge base" at the bottom is 100% slop. Why? Why inflict this on people?

Just another AI generated website with 5000 calculators thrown together that looks like every other single one. From a brand new account with a post that looks like it was also written from ChatGPT. Somehow getting enough votes to show up on my homepage. Things are definitely changing around HN compared to when it first started.

What are you implying?. He would have had to hire a good developer at least for a full month salary to build something like this.

And if you are thinking enterprise, it would take 2-3 developers, 2 analysts, 2 testers, 1 lead and 1 manager 2-3 months to push something like this. (Otherwise why would lead banks spent billions and billions for IT development every year? What tangible difference you see in their website/services?)

5000 calculators may look excessive, but in this case it magnifies the AI capabilities in the future - both in terms of quality and quantity.

Re: Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back

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Post by dharmatech »

ikidd wrote: post #21

Same here. Farmer now, former network engineer and software project lead, but I stopped programming almost 20 years ago. Now I build all sorts of apps for my farm and organizations I volunteer for. I can pound out an app for tracking sample locations for our forage associations soil sample truck, another for moisture monitoring, a fleet task/calendar/maintenance app in hours and iterate on them when I think of featur…

Did you start farming from scratch?

Did you take over a farm?

Re: Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back

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Post by ivcatcher »

ikidd wrote: post #21

Same here. Farmer now, former network engineer and software project lead, but I stopped programming almost 20 years ago. Now I build all sorts of apps for my farm and organizations I volunteer for. I can pound out an app for tracking sample locations for our forage associations soil sample truck, another for moisture monitoring, a fleet task/calendar/maintenance app in hours and iterate on them when I think of featur…

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Re: Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back

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Post by dharmatech »

ikidd wrote: post #21

Same here. Farmer now, former network engineer and software project lead, but I stopped programming almost 20 years ago. Now I build all sorts of apps for my farm and organizations I volunteer for. I can pound out an app for tracking sample locations for our forage associations soil sample truck, another for moisture monitoring, a fleet task/calendar/maintenance app in hours and iterate on them when I think of featur…

Out of all the apps you've worked on, what's one or two that you think came out really well?

Re: Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back

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Post by fancyswimtime »

ivcatcher wrote: post #14
rob wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just another AI generated website with 5000 calculators thrown together that looks like every other single one. From a brand new account with a post that looks like it was also written from ChatGPT. Somehow getting enough votes to show up on my homepage. Things are definitely changing around HN compared to when it first started.

Fair call — it did kind of explode from one calculator to 60+ I’m a real person (long-time lurker, finally posting), but I get why it looks sus. Things are changing fast, and I’m just happy to be part of the messy early wave. Thanks for the honesty.

people are hurt because something which defined them as a person can now be done by a machine; don't let them dissuade you
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