alt Hacker News> The best engineers can visualize the whole architecture in their head, and describe exactly what they want to an AI
I think this must be part of it. I see so many posts about people burning a thousand dollars in AI credits building a small app, and I have no idea why. I use the $20 Claude plan and I rarely run out of usage, and I make all kinds of things. I just describe what I want, do a few back-and-forths of writing out the architecture, and Claude does it.
I think the folks burning thousands of dollars of credits are unable to describe what they want.
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andrekandre • today at 12:19 AM
> I think the folks burning thousands of dollars of credits are unable to describe what they want.
> think the folks burning thousands of dollars of credits are unable to describe what they want.
Basically, yes. I bought 'business tier' and I know about webdev but I'm somewhere between intern and junior, so I do a lot of discussing. One session is "I want [functionality and constraints], ask me relevant major design questions" then implementation, then me investigating and asking for fixes.