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andoandoyesterday at 7:00 PM1 replyview on HN

Because its SO much faster not to have to do all that. I think 10x is no joke, and if you're doing MVP, its just not worth the mental effort.


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pronyesterday at 8:53 PM

POC, sure (although 10x-ing a POC doesn't actually get you 10x velocity). MVP, though? No way. Today's frontier models are nowhere near smart enough to write a non-trivial product (i.e. something that others are meant to use), minimal or otherwise, without careful supervision. Anthropic weren't able to get agents to write even a usable C compiler (not a huge deal to begin with), even with a practically infeasible amount of preparatory work (write a full spec and a reference implementation, train the model on them as well as on relevant textbooks, write thousands of tests). The agents just make too many critical architectural mistakes that pretty much guarantee you won't be able to evolve the product for long, with or without their help. The software they write has an evolution horizon between zero days and about a year, after which the codebase is effectively bricked.

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