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Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI

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Re: Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI

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Post by tananan »

greenpizza13 wrote: post #215
tananan wrote: post #191

Preface: unpolished thoughts — it is refreshing to see so many people working on this issue! Lately I've been dreaming about a way of using LLMs that never (or in majority of the cases) results in chatting with an agent or checking its traces. Instead, you provide prompts in natural language, e.g. refactor these modules in this way ..., and the result is shown as a visual proposal (some kind of diff on a graph). Then…

Check out Plannotator. It’s not exactly visual, but instead of chats you just give something more like an inline code review. Highlight text, add emoji reactions, contextual comments. This is my preferred way of reveling AI plans. Now I’ve started using it to open planning sessions on existing files and annotating them instead of starting from a prompt, in some cases.

Interesting, thanks!

Re: Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI

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Post by a2ff6eeb0 »

danielvaughn wrote: post #216
a2ff6eeb0 wrote: post #198

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No, the AI takes care of everything but the final manual testing, mostly. It's improving on all aspects over time, too. It's not that much work.

For software within a certain complexity scope, this is true. Like the average SaaS CRUD experience that many web developers were building before AI - a lot of that can be handled almost entirely by agents, with very little human in the loop activity. But past a certain point of scale/complexity, this breaks down rapidly. In the past 8 months I've seen this occur several times, and if you only rely on agents to get y…

AI has mostly been improving faster than the complexity of the projects people are capable of handling has increased. The lines are going to cross soon.

Re: Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI

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Post by nharziro »

bah9 wrote: post #220
nharziro wrote: post #217

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When I read stuff like this people I feel like people haven't yet accepted reality. I think knowing how to write code made a lot of people feel very special. Like the could do something magical, and now feel like that's being taken a way from them. I've been writing code since I was a child and spent my entire career as a software engineer, so I understand where these people are coming from, but the reality is AI has…

What is your point? That coding was easy and nothing special? It wasn't. That programming changed forever? No one arguing. That all of us should enjoy new world order? Nah, this work isn't fun for me anymore. I will do something else for the living

I never said it was easy but it's clear that you're not coping well with new world order. Unfortunately for a lot people, it's here to stay do get used to it.

Re: Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI

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Post by jkl5xx »

I feel like many of the comments are skeptical or dismissive but this seems like a really clever idea. So many classic textbooks use pseudocode to get the gist of an algorithm across, so this isn’t an unprecedented level of abstraction to be working at. It makes sense that there would exist a middle ground of abstraction between an English essay and actual running code.

Another interesting thought about this: it’s almost like a quick and dirty transpiler for your own programming language design ideas. I’ve toyed with writing my own ”perfect language” and this seems like a quick and dirty way to test out the ergonomics of various syntaxes and concepts via pseudocode.

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Post by runtimecraft »

jkl5xx wrote: post #227

I feel like many of the comments are skeptical or dismissive but this seems like a really clever idea. So many classic textbooks use pseudocode to get the gist of an algorithm across, so this isn’t an unprecedented level of abstraction to be working at. It makes sense that there would exist a middle ground of abstraction between an English essay and actual running code. Another interesting thought about this: it’s al…

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Re: Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI

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Post by prabhanjana_c »

"To be honest, I’m sick to death of writing longform English to describe every change I want to my codebase. However, I also don’t want to go back to writing all my code manually."

I use voice input, when I get tired of typing, it is helping me really well. yes agree that, typing long form of English is very tiresome

Pseudocode -

- My question would be can it scale for all types of logic, and do we endup creating syntax similar to python.

Behaviour -

In the vibe coding , most of the time we also give behavior. I feel Gherkin syntax is best form to describe the behavior.

  https://cucumber.io/docs/gherkin/reference
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