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Eight more months of agents

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Re: Eight more months of agents

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Post by senordevnyc »

wasmainiac wrote: post #77
hasperdi wrote: post #3

> It sounds like someone saying power tools should be outlawed in carpentry. I see this a lot here

Yes because A tech-bro AIs dream is hundreds of thousands of developers being let go and replacing them with no code tools. Sure, replace me with AI, but I better get royalties on my public contributions. I like many other developers have kids and other responsibilities to pay for. We did not share our work publicly to be replaced. The same way I did not lend my neighbour my car so he could run me over, that was impl…

We’ve been doing this to other professions for half a century. Live by the sword, die by the sword.

Re: Eight more months of agents

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Post by yojat661 »

overgard wrote: post #49
uludag wrote: post #42

> I am having more fun programming than I ever have, because so many more of the programs I wish I could find the time to write actually exist. I wish I could share this joy with the people who are fearful about the changes agents are bringing. It might be just me but this reads as very tone deaf. From my perspective, CEOs are seething at the mouth to make as many developers redundant as possible, not being shy about…

I bought Steve Yegge's "Vibe Coding" book. I think I'm about 1/4th of the way through it or so. One thing that surprised me is there's this naivete on display that workers are going to be the ones to reap the benefits of this. Like, Steve was using an example of being able to direct the agent while doing leisure activities (never mind that Steve is more of an executive/thought leader in this company, and, prior to LL…

You missed option c. C) keep all 8 engineers so the team can pump out features faster, all still working 8 hour days. The ceo will probably be forced to do it to keep up with their competition.

Re: Eight more months of agents

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Post by dagss »

dakolli wrote: post #65
dagss wrote: post #13

But if you try some penny-saving cheap model like Sonnet [..bad things..]. [Better] pay through the nose for Opus. After blowing $800 of my bootstrap startup funds for Cursor with Opus for myself in a very productive January I figured I had to try to change things up... so this month I'm jumping between Claude Code and Cursor, sometimes writing the plans and having the conversation in Cursor and dump the implementati…

I promise you you're just going to continue to light money on fire. Don't fall for this token madness, the bigger your project gets, the less capable the llm will get and the more you spend per request on average. This is literally all marketing tricks by inference providers. Save your money and code it yourself, or use very inexpensive llm methods if you must. I think we are going to start hearing stories of people…

Compared to the salary I loose by not taking a consulting gig for half a year, these $800 arent't all that much. (I guess depending on definition of bootstrap, mine might not be, as I support myself with saved consulting income.)

Startup is a gamble with or without the LLM costs.

I have been coding for 20 years, I have a good feel for how much time I would have spent without LLM assistance. And if LLMs vanish from the face of the earth tomorrow, I still saved myself that time.

Re: Eight more months of agents

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Post by sarchertech »

gip wrote: post #80

> In 2026, I don't use an IDE any more. I don't think it is the best way to look at it. I think that now every team has the power to build and maintain an internal agent (tool + UX) to manager software products. I don't necessarily think that chat-only is enough except for small projects, so teams will build agent that gives them access to the level of abstraction that works best. It's a data point but this weekend (…

I’m not saying this is definitely a bot. However, this is the 7th time I’ve read a post and thought it might be an OpenAI promotion bot, clicked on the username, and noticed that the account was created in 2011.

I have yet to do this and see any other year. Was there someone who bought a ton of accounts in 2011 to farm them out? A data breach? Was 2011 just a very big year for new users? (My own account is from 2011)

Re: Eight more months of agents

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Post by loveparade »

sarchertech wrote: post #84
gip wrote: post #80

> In 2026, I don't use an IDE any more. I don't think it is the best way to look at it. I think that now every team has the power to build and maintain an internal agent (tool + UX) to manager software products. I don't necessarily think that chat-only is enough except for small projects, so teams will build agent that gives them access to the level of abstraction that works best. It's a data point but this weekend (…

I’m not saying this is definitely a bot. However, this is the 7th time I’ve read a post and thought it might be an OpenAI promotion bot, clicked on the username, and noticed that the account was created in 2011. I have yet to do this and see any other year. Was there someone who bought a ton of accounts in 2011 to farm them out? A data breach? Was 2011 just a very big year for new users? (My own account is from 2011)

It's definitely a bot, just like probably around 10% of comments on HN at this point, and the majority of upvotes. And it's only increasing.

Calling it bot is a bit dismissive though. It's an agent!

Re: Eight more months of agents

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Post by redanddead »

sarchertech wrote: post #84
gip wrote: post #80

> In 2026, I don't use an IDE any more. I don't think it is the best way to look at it. I think that now every team has the power to build and maintain an internal agent (tool + UX) to manager software products. I don't necessarily think that chat-only is enough except for small projects, so teams will build agent that gives them access to the level of abstraction that works best. It's a data point but this weekend (…

I’m not saying this is definitely a bot. However, this is the 7th time I’ve read a post and thought it might be an OpenAI promotion bot, clicked on the username, and noticed that the account was created in 2011. I have yet to do this and see any other year. Was there someone who bought a ton of accounts in 2011 to farm them out? A data breach? Was 2011 just a very big year for new users? (My own account is from 2011)

2011 just so happened to be 4 years before a very important year: 2015 — The founding of OpenAI. Unrelated note, have you tried Codex and the Codex SDK?

Re: Eight more months of agents

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Post by redanddead »

loveparade wrote: post #86
sarchertech wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m not saying this is definitely a bot. However, this is the 7th time I’ve read a post and thought it might be an OpenAI promotion bot, clicked on the username, and noticed that the account was created in 2011. I have yet to do this and see any other year. Was there someone who bought a ton of accounts in 2011 to farm them out? A data breach? Was 2011 just a very big year for new users? (My own account is from 2011)

It's definitely a bot, just like probably around 10% of comments on HN at this point, and the majority of upvotes. And it's only increasing. Calling it bot is a bit dismissive though. It's an agent!

it is giving a very agentic vibe

Re: Eight more months of agents

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Post by redanddead »

drsalt wrote: post #64
rmonvfer wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I can’t recommend gpt-5.3-codex enough, it’s great! I’ve been using it with the new macOS app and I’m impressed. I’ve always been a Claude Code guy and I find myself using codex more and more. Opus is still much nicer explaining issues and walking me through implementations but codex is faster (even with xhigh effort) and gets the job done 95% of the time. I was spending unholy amounts of money and tokens (subs…

you've always been a Claude Code guy? this has existed less than a year.

I was born clutching a Claude Code shell, you peasant.

The first sentence out of my mouth was a system prompt

Re: Eight more months of agents

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Post by skydhash »

cruffle_duffle wrote: post #67
illusive4080 wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bolstering your point, check out the comments in this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1qy9dcs/who_has_compl... There’s a lot of unwillingness to even attempt to try the tools.

Those people are absolutely going to get left in the dust. In the hands of a skilled dev, these things are massive force multipliers.

It doesn’t matter how fast you run if it’s not the correct direction.
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