alt Hacker NewsThat's why AI isn't really a tool here. You can buy a new drill. If you replace all your house builders with a house factory then you're utterly reliant on the company that makes the factory.
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gonzalohm • yesterday at 4:10 PM
Or you can code without AI you know? If the company that makes the factory goes down you can fall back to the previous method.
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AI coding assistants haven’t been available for very long. If someone forgot how to write code manually already then they have bigger problems.
I don’t think the house factory analogy makes sense for multiple reasons. I subscribe to multiple LLM providers and switch between them all day. I could sign up for a dozen more to provide GLM 5.1 if I wanted to as well. I can even run lesser models locally on my machine.
This is nothing like a single factory because I can switch to a new provider in minutes with a credit card.