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Re: Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem

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No it does not count as hand built. In the same way that a human pressing buttons, such that an automated production line makes a watch, and then at the end a human goes and looks at it and says "yup that's a watch" isn't a hand-made watch.

Nice opinion but it's clearly a spectrum and not binary. Is assembling machine-made components by hand to make a watch hand-made?

I don't call my Ikea furniture hand-built.

Re: Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem

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post #79

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It’s not hand-built. It’s hand prompted.

Writing code by your own hands is an esoteric hobby. We are past the slop era. This is coding now. If you're 1x, you're not a dev. I would assume by now most of the code published on Github is hand-built with LLM prompts and armies of AI agents.

This is very much still the slop era.

Re: Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem

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post #85

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> now nothing goes past me unreviewed and untested So it's not hand-built?

Honest question - does using claude code and steering it to type the code I want counts as hand-built? Like doing actual PRs, nit picking, basically treating it as a jr/product/typist while I'm the one making ALL the decisions? Reading every line and approving manually if it's a code that I would write?

Directly equivalent to having outsourced it to a shop of remote consultants where you remained as onshore lead. And in all those past cases we would have said "No."

Re: Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem

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post #85

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> now nothing goes past me unreviewed and untested So it's not hand-built?

Honest question - does using claude code and steering it to type the code I want counts as hand-built? Like doing actual PRs, nit picking, basically treating it as a jr/product/typist while I'm the one making ALL the decisions? Reading every line and approving manually if it's a code that I would write?

You're not making all the decisions in that case. You're making approvals and steering but the agent is making decisions and is framing what is even available to you to approve. When you build something by hand, you make decisions as you go in a way that the agent is now replacing.
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