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istriceyesterday at 5:03 PM2 repliesview on HN

Strongly disagree. If the complexity of your work it the software development itself, then it means that your work is not very complex to begin with.

It has always been extremely annoying to fight with people who mistake the ability of building or engaging with complicated systems (like your regex) with competency.

I work in building AI for a very complex application, and I used to be in the top 0.1% of Python programmers (by one metric) at my previous FAANG job, and Claude has completely removed any barriers I have between thinking and achieving. I have achieved internal SOTA for my company, alone, in 1 week, doing something that previously would have taken me months of work. Did I have to check that the AI did everything correctly? Sure. But I did that after saving months of implementation time so it was very worth it.

We're now in the age of being ideas-bound instead of implementation-bound.


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nothinkjustaiyesterday at 7:30 PM

What was the metric?

phist_mcgeetoday at 1:16 AM

Trivia was always the hallmark of an insufferable programmer. Remembering the syntax to regex always struck me as a detail of programming, not a fundamental. I'm glad I no longer have to waste my life debugging it.