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aristofunlast Friday at 10:17 PM2 repliesview on HN

If you expect it to _do_ things for you - you're setting yourself up for failure.

If you treat it as an astonishingly sophisticated and extremely powerful autocomplete (which it is) - you have plenty of opportunities to make your life better.


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mrgoldenbrownyesterday at 10:13 PM

In other words, if we believe what the CEOs of the AI companies claim, we are setting ourselves up for disappointment.

phtrivieryesterday at 10:05 PM

To be fair with OP, the hype about what the tool is "supposed" to be doing ("your accountants will rebuild the ERP over the week end, you don't need programmers, etc...") is setting a dev up for frustration.

Personnaly, I'm trying to learn the "make it write the plan, fix the plan, break it down even more, etc..." loops that are necessary; but I haven't had a use case (yet?) where the total time spent developing the thing was radically shorter.

LLMs make wonders on bootstrapping a greenfield project. Unfortunately, you tend to only do this only once ;)

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