alt Hacker NewsI don't agree on 1, partly yes on 2.
What it buys is a clear path through the mess without having to make it.
I'm saying: 'figure out the design and constraints by discovering them ... instead of trying to 'one-shot' them as a human'.
By the time you've run the gambit 100 times - you can synthesize the learning into something that's nearly complete.
Let the AI figure out the constraints, you just guide that. It can't do it in conversation, it takes a lot of iterative prodding.
But yes you have to decide where to steer it, and this only works for certain kinds of engineering at a certain scale.
Trauma dump/sign of the frothy times:
I got fired back in June for protesting against trying to “design everything up front” (by adding more slop plan docs alongside the hundred of others that my tiny team was charged with producing per month) and instead opting to explore the problem space through code/experimentation. In actuality, I just asked to be remote again. I was burnt out and they were looking for an excuse to fire me.