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spicyusername • today at 10:57 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

    code to spec until I get stuck
This part will go away over the next year. You doing it will be too slow, when an agent can do it in 5 to 30 minutes.

Technically it's not needed now, but everything's so new, it's understandable. Everyone's workflow hasn't migrated yet. You should go take a look.

We all mourn the loss of the craft, but the wheel turns. People still make furniture by hand sometimes, even if most furniture is made in a factory now.

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nDRDY • today at 11:11 AM

Why hasn't it gone away already? ChatGPT at least has been around for over 3 years.

Why is my AI-first colleage constantly having to get more expensive AI subscriptions approved?

>most furniture is made in a factory now

Terrible analogy. Software is not like a mass-produced item - it is written significantly less often than it is executed!

You could say that AI will allow many more variations of softwares to be written in the same time frame, but I'm still sure I can produce quality output in a competitive time.

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