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If it could do anything that a junior dev could, that’d be a valid point of comparison. But it continually, wildly performs slower and falls short every time I’ve tried.
I am way more productive with $200/month of AI than I would be with $5,000/month of junior developer. And it isn’t close.
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But it continually, wildly performs slower and falls short every time I’ve tried. If it falls short every time you've tried, it's likely that one or more of these is true: A. You're working on some really deep thing that only world-class expects can do, like optimizing graphics engines for AAA games. B. You're using a language that isn't in the top ~10 most popular in AI models' training sets. C. You have an opportun…
Trying to make a media player, media server, all by using ffmpeg and a pre-built media streaming engine as it's core. Python and SQLite. About a week's worth of effort every time until it begins to go too far off the rails to be reliable to continue to develop with. It never did get the ffmpeg commands right, I had to go back to crafting those by hand, it never did get the streaming engine to play in the browser's vi…
And whether you have a decent PRD or spec. Are you trying to prompt the harness with one bit at a time, or did you give it a complete spec and ask it to analyze it and break it down into individual issues with dependencies (e.g. using beads and beads_viewer)?
I'm not looking for reasons to criticize your approach or question your experience, but your answers may point to opportunities for you to get more out of these tools.
If you're using Claude Code and you have a friend who has had more success with these tools, consider exporting your transcripts and letting them have a look: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/25/claude-code-transcript...
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> I think LLMs make me at least 10% more effective I know this was last year but... https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-o...
I don’t need external research to validate or invalidate my own experience.
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It's not like he was the only one who came up with this idea. I built something like that without knowing about GasTown or Beeds. It's just an obvious next step https://github.com/mohsen1/claude-code-orchestrator
Exactly! I built something similar. These are such low hanging fruit ideas that no one company/person should be credited for coming up with them.
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I don’t need external research to validate or invalidate my own experience.
I think it depends on the tasks you use it for. Bootstrapping or translating projects between languages is amazing. New feature development? Questionable.
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At this point, if you're paying out of pocket you should use Kimi or GLM for it to make sense
These are super slow to run locally, though, unless you've got some great hardware - right? At least, my M1 Pro seems to struggle and take forever using them via Ollama.
This is great and all but, who can actually afford to let these agents run on tasks all day long? Is anyone here actually using this or are these rollouts aimed at large companies? I'm burning through so many tokens on Cursor that I've had to upgrade to Ultra recently - and i'm convinced they're tweaking the burn rate behind the scenes - usage allowance doesn't seem proportional. Thank god the open source/local LLM w…
This is great and all but, who can actually afford to let these agents run on tasks all day long? Is anyone here actually using this or are these rollouts aimed at large companies? I'm burning through so many tokens on Cursor that I've had to upgrade to Ultra recently - and i'm convinced they're tweaking the burn rate behind the scenes - usage allowance doesn't seem proportional. Thank god the open source/local LLM w…
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Otherwise what’s the difference between what they are providing vs me creating two independent pull requests using agents and having an agent resolve merge conflicts?
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Exactly! I built something similar. These are such low hanging fruit ideas that no one company/person should be credited for coming up with them.
Seriously, I thought that was what langchain was for back in 2023.
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$200/month is peanuts when you are a business paying your employees $200k/year. I think LLMs make me at least 10% more effective and therefore the cost to my employer is very worth it. Lots of trades have much more expensive tools (including cars).
> I think LLMs make me at least 10% more effective I know this was last year but... https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-o...