logoalt Hacker News

Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration

841 pointsby speckxlast Wednesday at 8:29 PM345 commentsview on HN

Comments

arandlast Thursday at 8:36 AM

a hack you this went to a can go to you so good hahahahaha§hah§aha

notatoadlast Thursday at 12:12 AM

[flagged]

show 1 reply
JonaScottlast Thursday at 6:42 AM

[flagged]

kunleylast Thursday at 3:16 AM

> I was fifteen minutes into writing some code by hand like a Neanderthal

Tell me this isn't classism. Tell me this kind of narrative isn't a new norm

show 1 reply
rand17last Thursday at 6:30 AM

So you don't like writing "the boring code". What do you expect from writing a CRUD? What would you like to write? What "interesting problems" would you like to focus on? Great sadness will fall upon the industry when the last graybeard dies, who had this arcane knowledge of "writing code". I have bad Player Piano vibes nowdays.

Around me devs are beginning to warm up to the idea, that they are not coders (and neither should I be), but "prompt engineers". When I take too much time on a task, when I can't solve a problem with a push of a button, when I muse about copilot hallucinations in my PR - someone usually comes helpfully to tell me, I need better prompting skills. Have you tried this expression? Have you tried more context? Have you tried with this copy pasted magical formula?

No creative worker in human history was so overjoyed to devalue his or her work and knowledge in such haste.

show 1 reply