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Re:The quality of AI-assisted software depends on unit of wo... by liszper on Thursday September 18, 2025 @10:28AM (#45290154)
Yes, exactly. Learning new things is hard. Personally it took me about 200 hours to get started, and since then ~2500 hours to get familiar with the advanced techniques, and now I'm very happy with the results, managing extremely large codebases with LLM in production.

For context before that I had ~15 years of experience coding the traditional way.

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Re:The quality of AI-assisted software depends on unit of wo... by chownie on Thursday September 18, 2025 @11:02AM (#45290563)
Has anyone else noticed the extreme dichotomy of developers using AI agents? Either AI agents essentially don't work, or they are apparently running legions of agents to produce some nebulous gigantic estate.

I think the crucial difference is that I do actually see evidence (ie the codebase) posted sometimes for the former, the latter could well be entirely mythos -- a 24 day old account evangelizing for the legion of agents story does kind of fit the theme.

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Re:The quality of AI-assisted software depends on unit of wo... by sarchertech on Thursday September 18, 2025 @10:32AM (#45290199)
How many users is production and how large is extremely large.
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Re:The quality of AI-assisted software depends on unit of wo... by liszper on Thursday September 18, 2025 @10:38AM (#45290263)
200k DAU, 7 million registered, ~50 microservices, large monorepo
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Re:The quality of AI-assisted software depends on unit of wo... by sarchertech on Thursday September 18, 2025 @10:42AM (#45290323)
You have 50 microservices for 200k daily users?

Let me guess this has something to do with AI?

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Re:The quality of AI-assisted software depends on unit of wo... by liszper on Thursday September 18, 2025 @10:56AM (#45290489)
No, It has something to do with experience. The system is highly integrated to other platforms and have to stay afloat during burst loads.
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Re:The quality of AI-assisted software depends on unit of wo... by pjc50 on Thursday September 18, 2025 @11:12AM (#45290678)
.. what is this thing and can we see it?
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Re:The quality of AI-assisted software depends on unit of wo... by liszper on Thursday September 18, 2025 @11:53AM (#45291203)
you can OSINT me pretty easily, not going to post it here for the sake of anonymity against crawlers who train models on our conversations. today's HN comments are tomorrow's coding LLMs
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Re:The quality of AI-assisted software depends on unit of wo... by azinman2 on Thursday September 18, 2025 @12:39PM (#45291789)
You should write a blog post about your learnings. If you could even give some high level highlights here that’d be really helpful.
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