alt Hacker NewsMaybe I'm a control freak, but asking agents to one-shot random apps is nothing like how I actually use AI in software engineering.
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mikeocool • yesterday at 10:21 PM
Yeah, the models have all been really good at generating greenfield apps for a really long time (in the scope of LLM time).
I suppose it’s interesting to see how they make better greenfield apps. But I am much more interested in how they solve hard problems in existing gnarly codebases.
thsbrown • yesterday at 10:21 PM
Man I do ponder this all the time.
fragmede • yesterday at 10:19 PM
It's not, but it's trying to bring any level of objective measure in this realm, vs just going off of vibes.
Absolutely yes, but that's how you become twitter/X famous