Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance • Hacker News Board

Re: Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance

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Post by khriss » Wed, Aug 26, 2026, 7:06 AM UTC

ksd482 wrote: post #558

ksd482 wrote: post #406

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Great idea! Let me pull some stuff from my past chats, and put it in a github gist or something.

So I went back to my chats and there wasn't much there to put in a workflow or something. But here are the things that stood out: > Introduce me to these concepts layer by layer with a textbook style introductions. > Use color coded boxes etc. just like in textbook to highlight important details. > Along the way, give me exercises to do myself that would test my understanding so far. > Put everything in a local HTML…

Thanks!

Re: Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance

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Post by _se » Wed, Aug 26, 2026, 11:26 AM UTC

apatheticonion wrote: post #480

larsfaye wrote: post #445

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This is EXACTLY how I am working with these tools, you summarized everything about why I use this approach perfectly. Zed + OpenCode + Mimo/GLM/Kimi models are incredible. I haven't touched a "frontier model" for months. I really treat them as "delegation layer". They're systems that sit right alongside your stack, and at this point, at every level in it, like a connective tissue that intersects at all points. I can…

I had a job interview at Canva where they had an "AI coding round". They wanted to see how I used AI in my workflow. Because I was using DeepSeek flash, the interviewer was confused at how fast I was getting edits - he'd only used Claude and was used to it thinking for 40 minutes to update a function. We were building a frontend application and I was able to do that whole guided prompt/review loop. I finished the tas…

Did that AI round feedback scuttle a potential offer?

Re: Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance

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Post by nicce » Wed, Aug 26, 2026, 11:58 AM UTC

lrvick wrote: post #570

ex1fm3ta wrote: post #559

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hmm that's a bit low right now, since you need at least 48Gb of VRAM to be confortable. 32Gb might do it (on quantitized models + optimized) but it would be very slow.

That may have been true a few months ago, but shit changes fast in this space! I run Qwen 3.8 27b on each of my six AMD AI PRO r9700 GPUs at 80tps decode each and they cranks for days with 256k context, doing complex kernel, compiler, debugging, enclave, bootstrapping, pentesting, hardening, and systems work full time. ~$1200-1500/ea on ebay. Also ~40tps on my strix halo now but with room for several sessions at once…

What is your config for getting 80tps decode?