alt Hacker NewsThe premise of this argument is that using AI takes no skill, and experience using AI doesn't matter, and that domain expertise in software development won't help you build better software with AI.
I don't think any of those things are true.
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vovavili • today at 3:14 PM
A person maintaining a sizeable open-source project is overwhelmingly likely to have all three.
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BurningFrog • today at 3:02 PM
I think the argument is more that jerf has that skill, experience, and domain expertise.
I think you'll find most of the people creating the HTTP proxy servers and brand new AI harnesses and git or ssh config managers and all of the other things that we already have way too many versions of are not our best software engineers anyhow. I like to analyze things in terms of how much of the real world they've encountered [1], and one of the reasons I would just put my own solutions together is a lot of these manifested major projects with huge lists of "features" have either one user, or in many cases, zero, which is to say even the author isn't actually using it, and I might as well put together my 1-user project myself.
[1]: https://jerf.org/iri/post/2026/what_value_code_in_ai_era/