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Re: I think they are lying to you [video]

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I think this guy is using AI differently than me. Since Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.3, I have been able to absolutely crush my coding work. Boris might be embellishing how he ONLY writes loops, but for the most part I am just handing off planning docs to Claude or GPT and they implement it with like 95% accuracy. A lot of you don't want to hear it but this is a user issue.

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Re: I think they are lying to you [video]

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Pretty much the same point I made: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48403908 Their apparent inability to get the basics right makes me severely doubt their claims of self-improving AI. The humans at Anthropic wouldn't know improvement if it landed on their lap and started twerking, and AI cannot do a job without strong human intervention into what the goals and guardrails actually are. I'm kind of reminded of whe…

Reading this it occurs to me that this timeline may be moving toward a future where garbage software, garbage information etc. have become the norm for so long that the number of people who can distinguish trash from quality, or signal from noise, has become negligible. A true era of ignorance, looking like an ocean of nonsense in which no one can really navigate as it is ungrounded in reality. Idiocracy presents a n…

This is more because less educated people are coming onto the internet and programming.

World was probably more ignorant before but internet/computers as a space was better because it consisted of a different set of people.

There is still a ton of people that do understand quality and produce high quality stuff obviously

Re: I think they are lying to you [video]

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I think this guy is using AI differently than me. Since Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.3, I have been able to absolutely crush my coding work. Boris might be embellishing how he ONLY writes loops, but for the most part I am just handing off planning docs to Claude or GPT and they implement it with like 95% accuracy. A lot of you don't want to hear it but this is a user issue.

Wow, I did not expect this much response from my comment. First, let me say I am not flexing. I am very willing and happy to share HOW I'm able to achieve high quality code through my workflows and what my loops look like.

I am currently building 4 projects at the same time using a boilerplate I developed for my own projects.

One thing many people who are new to agentic coding harnesses may be missing is that a lot of workflows are personal to how the developer approaches design and implementation. So if you message me, please keep in mind that my approach may not align with how you approach software development.

That said, I will do my best to abstract my process so it's applicable for your work. I would also recommend reading OpenAI's article on harness engineering: https://openai.com/index/harness-engineering/

DMs are open if you genuinely want to know how I work :)

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Re: I think they are lying to you [video]

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I think this guy is using AI differently than me. Since Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.3, I have been able to absolutely crush my coding work. Boris might be embellishing how he ONLY writes loops, but for the most part I am just handing off planning docs to Claude or GPT and they implement it with like 95% accuracy. A lot of you don't want to hear it but this is a user issue.

Wow, I did not expect this much response from my comment. First, let me say I am not flexing. I am very willing and happy to share HOW I'm able to achieve high quality code through my workflows and what my loops look like. I am currently building 4 projects at the same time using a boilerplate I developed for my own projects. One thing many people who are new to agentic coding harnesses may be missing is that a lot o…

> Each business domain is divided into a fixed set of layers, with strictly validated dependency directions and a limited set of permissible edges. These constraints are enforced mechanically via custom linters (Codex-generated, of course!) and structural tests.

> The diagram below shows the rule: within each business domain (e.g. App Settings), code can only depend “forward” through a fixed set of layers (Types → Config → Repo → Service → Runtime → UI). Cross-cutting concerns (auth, connectors, telemetry, feature flags) enter through a single explicit interface: Providers.

This sounds so much like CQRS/hexagonal/DDD/other stuff. This is like the stuff that real world software teams actually struggle to execute on. This is the stuff people want solved. I don't think anyone doubts that if you can nail some sort of rigid, well-defined architecture and tooling workflow, agents can fly on filling in implementation. But it's the first part that needs solving.

Re: I think they are lying to you [video]

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I think this guy is using AI differently than me. Since Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.3, I have been able to absolutely crush my coding work. Boris might be embellishing how he ONLY writes loops, but for the most part I am just handing off planning docs to Claude or GPT and they implement it with like 95% accuracy. A lot of you don't want to hear it but this is a user issue.

I read this a lot and it is just very foreign to me. I use AI systems in software work all day seven days a week and my job has become simultaneously more interesting and more difficult because I scale the ambition up until it's hard again. Isn't anything else a surrender to irrelevance? I agree that many coding tasks that were previously effort intensive are now not effort intensive, but there's no ceiling I'm aware…

This matches my experience. LLMs are great at speeding up the easy but tedious bits, but they can’t even come close to independently identifying and solving the issues that come up in the development process which has always been like 90% of the work.

I definitely can do more with them, but the speed up isn’t anywhere close to an OOM. I would say they let me drift into scope I probably didn’t understand when I started, and that can be dangerous waters, but I absolutely use them as a tool to speed up my understanding of that new territory. And I wouldn’t say that pushing the boundaries of my understanding on ambitious projects is in anyway unusual for me. It’s just that I can push a little further a little faster.

Re: I think they are lying to you [video]

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

What does this have to do with the video?

From 3m50s in the video: > I think they are lying, and I think they are hurting people. I think they're genuinely hurting people. That hurting of people is part of the war that I mentioned. The rest of the video focuses quite heavily on this general issue. It gives specific examples, but they're representative.

Seems hyperbolic to me. The video is about them "hurting people" by convincing foolish CEOs to replace their workers with AI (and the CEOs and investors are also being hurt by this). You're talking about some scenario where faking AI competence makes AI somehow actually competent.

Re: I think they are lying to you [video]

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Pralaya happens after complete age of Brahma. That would be 100 Brahma years. Or 311.04 trillion human years. We are in the 51st year of Brahma. Kali Yuga lifespan is 432,000 years. Of which we are 4000+ years into it. So that's another 428,000 years of hell on Earth.

Yeah like he said, not far away :D

Yep. Fortunately, it’s easy to learn in this case who is right or wrong. See you guys back in the thread in 2037 if all goes well.

Re: I think they are lying to you [video]

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Yup. The only caveat I'd add is that I'm using an alternate account to agree with people who say that AI coding has been amazing, because there is a seemingly a good chunk of people who dislike it and it will be met with downvotes. Also because my real account has my real name in the profile along with projects I work on, and a simple search could reveal my pro-AI coding views and these same folks who downvote could…

And exactly as predicted: Downvoted to hell. Thanks, but the world's changed and there's no going back. Hope you can change with it.

A lot of the comments in this thread are down voted. None of them have anything to do with the content of the video people came here to see discussion of.

Re: I think they are lying to you [video]

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reading this it occurs to me that this timeline may be moving toward a future where garbage software, garbage information etc. have become the norm for so long that the number of people who can distinguish trash from quality, or signal from noise, has become negligible. A true era of ignorance, looking like an ocean of nonsense in which no one can really navigate as it is ungrounded in reality. Idiocracy presents a n…

The pralaya is not far away. Soon Shiva will begin his dance. I give us until 2036.

Roger Bonner - When Shiva Dances (4m22s):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYsVQPVnLxs

Enjoy...….

Re: I think they are lying to you [video]

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This YouTuber is very knowledgeable, this video in particular was very good to follow along and take in what he says. Usually, I can barely watch any of his videos when they popup as recommend because his humor and way of behaving feels directed towards kids to entertain. So I avoid his channel. This time, I actually enjoyed the video. I wish he continued with this style instead.

Another point I would like to bring up is this, I do not believe the idea of ”solving coding” is appropriate. I do not see these agents as replacement for our crafts, but rather, as a assistive tool for us. Its an extension of us. If you are at the beginner stage of something, and have a wrong approach for something, the agent amplify that issue (a bit of prompting can help mitigate this for beginners ofc, for example the agent can act as a teaching instructor).

I feel like some people don’t know how good Claude Code (the harness) is at general tasks as well, not just coding. It have helped me troubleshoot a lot of issues in a variety of environments, from things in the local machine to external services to the web. It has truly shortened my time of sitting stuck infront of the desktop, starring at the screen while out of ideas.

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