alt Hacker NewsThe whole point is that the friend wouldn’t know what an agent is. The friend would have heard that AI is changing the world and she would have went into ChatGPT or maybe Claude or Gemini. Presuming that the ideal is that anyone should be able to use these tools for anything (which I do not agree with) the chatbot needs to say “you need to use my agent mode.”
This is not a wrong tool, wrong job issue. The issue is that people think any moron can use an LLM and get professional results.
We're not talking about the friend. I'm talking to the person I responded to: I'm saying they should have recommended a better tool to their friend.
My HR friend found Lovable off her own bat. I imagine she probably Googled or asked ChatGPT something like, "How do I build a website to do BLAH without knowing anything about building websites?"
The point is people talk, they ask questions, they Google, they talk to ChatGPT, and if they have a problem to solve they're often quite motivated to find a solution to that problem off their own backs.
If someone asks me for advice on how to get something built then I'm going to recommend a tool that suits them and their situation, whatever that may be. In this specific situation, if they know nothing about building software, I'm certainly not going to sit them down and have them try to follow the most jank-ass way imaginable of building software with an LLM when I know much better tools exist that are built with people like them in mind.
Seriously, what is with the overly narrow assumptions in the replies I'm getting this morning? You're the third person who's tried to set this same fraying paper tiger on me. Can we all just wake up and think about the issues a bit more in the round, please?