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PaulHouletoday at 5:46 PM1 replyview on HN

I get exhausted very quickly reading stuff about AI by people who think there is some secret language of prompts or some better model or better framework which will make them successful at developing things.

I'm left with the same feeling I have when I read blogs by celebrity managers and developers like DHH or Spolsky or Graham or Atwood or Yegge, they talk as if you could learn something transferable from their experiences except... you can't. Their opinions about spaces or tabs or whether you should use static or dynamic languages are as good as anybody else's but not better!

The difference is that those guys actually made something and sold it, whereas the vibe coder almost made something.

People who make something significant with AI are going to do it because of all the others skills and attributes they have: good taste, domain knowledge, modeling, knowing what good code looks like, knowing what good user interfaces feel like, etc.

That's why I am not doomscrolling X to see what celebrity vibe coders say they are doing right now.


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SoftTalkertoday at 6:02 PM

By that logic why is anyone here on HN? What good is reading about anyone else's experiences, they are as good as anyone else's but not better.

I still tend to go by the advice I read when I was just out of school: If you want to be successful, find someone who is successful, and do what they do.

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