alt Hacker News"hired an architect 18 months ago who used AI to architect everything"
Huh? 18 months ago? I've been using it that long - it wasn't able to do that back then....
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tomwojcik • today at 8:09 PM
Agreed. Cursor has been released in 2023, but Claude Code and Sonnet in Feb 2025, right?
dolebirchwood • today at 7:17 PM
> it wasn't able to do that back then
It was, if you accept that it did so poorly.
I had a similar situation 2 years ago. Correct these tools could not do those things, but people still used them for it. As well as diagnosing their dogs with cancer and whatever else.