alt Hacker News> Although AI lets us do much more,
More of what? I see many here using AI to build more of the same things in another language such as rewrites and then claiming that they are "productive", which is the problem of many engineers here.
Not that much risk taking if all what everyone is doing is just full blown rewrites and then abandoning it in a couple of months later and just wasting tokens for free.
If the result is to vibe code something for free and it makes no money and has no users then it is a waste of time.
More of whatever you had in mind.
Clearly there are few limits to what you can implement with AI agents today.
Depending on the complexity, you will spend a lot of time QA testing, giving feedback, and iterating.
One can take shortcuts such as porting existing software, as you mentioned. Many are just content publishing crappy novel software that they barely tested.
You don't need to do that. No one is forcing you not to QA test and iterate until you have a good product.