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Re: "I met a founder who writes 10k lines of code a day thanks to AI"

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Post by jamil7 »

rich_sasha wrote: post #42
smartmic wrote: post #21

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Exactly. And I wonder why Paul Graham is jumping on such a statement. Of everything I've read by him so far, this has the least substance.

I suppose VC love it. They want to lower the bar to building products, and make them cheaper. They want a steady line of investable companies with cheap hiring down the line. More generally, it's weird. 10 years ago, the technical aspects would legitimately be seen as a major, perhaps main obstacle to building a product. It's questionable whether that is really gone (can you really, really build a software product no…

> 10 years ago, the technical aspects would legitimately be seen as a major, perhaps main obstacle to building a product.

Yeah I think that this was really more the advancement of frameworks, tooling and SaaS software. I see it all the time with non-technical people at work who demo something they built with LLMs and its always Next.js, Supabase and Tailwaind that are actually doing the heavy lifting, with the LLM invoking some commands for them. This all gets attributed to LLMs though since this is often the first exposure to those tools for non-technical people. Most engineers also knew how to scaffold a SaaS with Rails, Django or Next.js, Stripe etc. without writing much code.

Re: "I met a founder who writes 10k lines of code a day thanks to AI"

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Post by brainless »

entropy47 wrote: post #47
brainless wrote: post #46

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No, it is not live yet. I am launching this hopefully in a week.

Good luck! Great to see people having a go. Save a screenshot of my cynicism to send me when you make bank.

Thank you. Making bank means I will have to do something I never did - make a sale or two. I am an engineer and trying founder for more than a decade. Always struggled to keep things in balance.

Things changed dramatically in the last few months. I can enjoy my super cheap nomad life of $200 / month while I build and market all my ideas, without working over 40 hours a week.

Re: "I met a founder who writes 10k lines of code a day thanks to AI"

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Post by brainless »

oxfordmale wrote: post #49
brainless wrote: post #43

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I will not be surprised if there is but that is not a problem that cannot be fixed with some effort. The point is if we can produce deploy-able, full-stack apps, which are manageable, this changes what it means for software and for startups. I live in a remote village in Himalayas, WB, India that I am sure no one on HN has heard of. I got 5G based broadband that is flaky just a few weeks back. By the end of this year…

The design is fundamentally flawed, with queries in close to hundred .js files. Perhaps you marker and sell a few, but it looks insecure and would be hard to refactor.

Are you sure of queries in `.js` files? Or do you mean `.rs` files?

  grep -r -i --include="*.jsx" --include="*.tsx" "SELECT\|INSERT\|UPDATE\|DELETE" ./adminapp

  grep -r -i --include="*.jsx" --include="*.tsx" "SELECT\|INSERT\|UPDATE\|DELETE" ./menuapp

Re: "I met a founder who writes 10k lines of code a day thanks to AI"

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Post by muskyFelon »

uamgeoalsk wrote: post #38
DANmode wrote: post #23

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I bet he'd be pumped to know he created a community that's so counterculture it either doesn't know who he is, or disdains him. Actual lol.

Counterculture? Do you think you have to be counterculture not to know who Paul Graham is? What the fuck lol. Ask anyone outside of your little bubble and they won't have a fucking clue. Edit: The above was needlessly confrontational. I don't know you and it was uncalled for. I just fucking despise Silicon Valley.

It's really sad to see what big tech has become these days. At least some folks are ready to stop drinking the kool-aid.

Re: "I met a founder who writes 10k lines of code a day thanks to AI"

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Post by cwiz »

rich_sasha wrote: post #42
smartmic wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly. And I wonder why Paul Graham is jumping on such a statement. Of everything I've read by him so far, this has the least substance.

I suppose VC love it. They want to lower the bar to building products, and make them cheaper. They want a steady line of investable companies with cheap hiring down the line. More generally, it's weird. 10 years ago, the technical aspects would legitimately be seen as a major, perhaps main obstacle to building a product. It's questionable whether that is really gone (can you really, really build a software product no…

It might also mean overproduction which is bad for economy.

Re: "I met a founder who writes 10k lines of code a day thanks to AI"

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Post by Someone »

brettkromkamp wrote: post #2

He says that this is not 10,000 lines of bug-filled crap… but, unless you are explicitly verifying and testing the code, how would you know? And, what kind of solution needs 10,000 lines of code added to it daily ? Then again, these could be separate solutions. but, still… this 10,000-lines-of-code-a-day thing seems strange.

> unless you are explicitly verifying and testing the code, how would you know?

Ask your AI to write tests and to review the code, of course /s

> And, what kind of solution needs 10,000 lines of code added to it daily?

In the first days, adding 10,000 useful lines a day can be very helpful. It means you get your MVP out earlier and/or makes it way easier to experiment with different ways to solve a problem.

Re: "I met a founder who writes 10k lines of code a day thanks to AI"

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Post by rich_sasha »

cwiz wrote: post #57
rich_sasha wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suppose VC love it. They want to lower the bar to building products, and make them cheaper. They want a steady line of investable companies with cheap hiring down the line. More generally, it's weird. 10 years ago, the technical aspects would legitimately be seen as a major, perhaps main obstacle to building a product. It's questionable whether that is really gone (can you really, really build a software product no…

It might also mean overproduction which is bad for economy.

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