alt Hacker NewsYeah... don't get me wrong I find a lot of value in these tools. They do help with a lot of the tedium, can be helpful as debugging assistants, and in the right hands (with the right oversight) can indeed generate solid code.
But we are, even as of Opus 4.5, so wildly far away from what the author is suggesting. FWIW my experience is working in the AI/ML space at a major tech company and as a maintainer + contributor of several OSS projects.
People are blindly trusting LLMs and generating mountains of slop. And the slop compounds.
I use AI as a rubber duck to research my options, sanity-check my code before a PR, and give me a heads up on potential pain points going forward.
But I still write my own code. If I'm going to be responsible for it, I'm going to be the one who writes it.
It's my belief that velocity up front always comes at a cost down the line. That's been true for abstractions, for frameworks, for all kinds of time-saving tools. Sometimes that cost is felt quickly, as we've seen with vibe coding.
So I'm more interested in using AI in the research phase and to increase the breadth of what I can work on than to save time.
Over the course of a project, all approaches, even total hand-coding with no LLMs whatever, likely regress to the mean when it comes to hours worked. So I'd rather go with an approach that keeps me fully in control.