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zar1048576today at 1:22 AM1 replyview on HN

I wonder if there will be a different phenomena — namely everyone just developing their own personal version of what they want rather than relying on what someone else built. Nowadays, if the core functionality is straightforward enough, I find that I just end up building it myself so I can tailor it to my exact needs. It takes less time than trying to understand and adapt someone else’s code base, especially if it’s (mostly) AI generated and contains a great deal of code slop.


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Mengkudulangsattoday at 1:35 AM

This has been my experience as a newbie.

My prompts to Claude has evolved from "what program / data source do I need to do this" to "what program / data source do I need, to make you do this for me".

After a few iterations, any data source without a free API feed, or any program without a free CLI interface are edited out of the gene pool, so to speak.