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j45 • today at 6:49 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Originally I felt that there was going to be a reinvention of the wheel, until I saw the "shape" of software development changing, and the tooling needing to support the new flexibilities in positions and process.

Software development is not as much de-risking at the front like it used to be before building.

Now teams can build lots of stuff that works great, except it's the wrong things.

Most things are becoming the understand the problem "shape".

Understanding the shape of the problem isn't something LLMs can always make as.. svelte as early on.

Word generators gotta generate..


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skydhash • today at 7:01 PM

> Now teams can build lots of stuff that works great, except it's the wrong things.

That used to be called "time wasting". If you want to build software that will be used, you need to interview the users. Maybe a few things does require research to nail things right. But most software are user-facing, the research side is about optimization.

> Most things are becoming the understand the problem "shape".

Then should we be so reluctant about "trialing" invented solutions. It's the same thing with most AI projects, they're trying to justify the project after the facts while being very reluctant to get user insights.

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