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Re:Show HN: I AI-coded a tower defense game and documented t... by AndrewKemendo on Friday July 04, 2025 @05:26PM (#44467995)
You’re missing the point by bike shedding on “100x”

It’s probably higher tbh because there’s things I prototyped to test an assumption on, realized it was O(N^2) then dumped it and tried 4 more architecture simulations to get to one that was implementable with existing tool chains I know

So you’re doing exactly what i called out which is evaluating it as a magic oracle instead of what I said which is that it makes me personally something like 100x more productive as a support tool, which often means quickly ruling out bad ideas

Preventing a problem in architecture is worth way more than 100x

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Re:Show HN: I AI-coded a tower defense game and documented t... by sarchertech on Friday July 04, 2025 @07:57PM (#44468996)
If what you meant by 100x more productive is that sometimes for very some specific things it made you 100x more productive, and that isn’t applicable to software development in general, I can see that.

I have many times delivered a year of value in a few days by figuring out that we didn’t actually need to build something instead of just building exactly what someone asked for.

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Re:Show HN: I AI-coded a tower defense game and documented t... by AndrewKemendo on Friday July 04, 2025 @11:51PM (#44469968)
>I have many times delivered a year of value in a few days by figuring out that we didn’t actually need to build something instead of just building exactly what someone asked for.

Knowing what not to do more of a superpower than knowing what to do - cause it’s possible to know

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Re:Show HN: I AI-coded a tower defense game and documented t... by ramchip on Friday July 04, 2025 @07:20PM (#44468785)
You can prototype by hand too. Personally I find it might take me 10 min to try a change with an LLM that would have taken me 30 min to 1hr by hand. It's a very nice gain but given the other things to do that aren't sped up by LLM all that much (thinking about the options, communicating with the team), it's not _that_ crazy.
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