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Re:Anthropic acquires Bun by smcleod on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @02:02PM (#46125127)
Probably about 95% of mine now. Much better than I could for the most part.
Re:Anthropic acquires Bun by bopbopbop7 on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @02:10PM (#46125251)
Weird, AI writes terrible code for me that would never pass a code review. I guess people have different standards for good code.
Re:Anthropic acquires Bun by sinatra on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @02:21PM (#46125431)
Hah. It can’t be “I need to spend more time to figure out how to use these tools better.” It is always “I’m just smarter than other people and have a higher standard.”
Re:Anthropic acquires Bun by samdoesnothing on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @02:53PM (#46125919)
Show us your repos.
Re:Anthropic acquires Bun by smcleod on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @03:10PM (#46126158)
Re:Anthropic acquires Bun by johnfn on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @05:13PM (#46127650)
My stack is React/Express/Drizzle/Postgres/Node/Tailwind. It's built on Hetzner/AWS, which I terraformed with AI.

It's a private repo, and I won't make it open source just to prove it was written with AI, but I'd be happy to share the prompts. You can also visit the site, if you'd like: https://chipscompo.com/

Re:Anthropic acquires Bun by smcleod on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @02:30PM (#46125555)
Spot on.
Re:Anthropic acquires Bun by wry_discontent on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @02:39PM (#46125715)
The tools produce mediocre, usually working in the most technical sense of the word, and most developers are pretty shit at writing code that doesn't suck (myself included).

I think it's safe to say that people singularly focused on the business value of software are going to produce acceptable slop with AI.

Re:Anthropic acquires Bun by sulam on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @02:29PM (#46125544)
Or maybe he's working in a space that is less out of distribution than the work you're doing?
Re:Anthropic acquires Bun by bopbopbop7 on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @02:35PM (#46125634)
You’re right, I’m not making a nextjs/shadcn/clerk/vercel ai wrapper startup.
Re:Anthropic acquires Bun by smcleod on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @03:11PM (#46126183)
I don't remember saying I worked with nextjs, shadcn, clerk (I don't even know what that one is), vercel or even JS/TS so I'm not sure how you can be right but I should know better than to feed the trolls.
Re:Anthropic acquires Bun by smcleod on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @02:25PM (#46125483)
I suspect you do not know how to use AI for writing code. No offence intended - it is a journey for everyone.

You have to be setup with the right agentic coding tool, agent rules, agent tools (MCP servers), dynamic context acquisition and workflow (working with the agent operate from a plan rather than simple prompting and hoping for the best).

But if you're lazy, don't put the effort in to understand what you're working with and how to approach it with an engineering mindset - you'll be be left on the outside complaining and telling people how it's all hype.

Re:Anthropic acquires Bun by the_overseer on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @02:44PM (#46125788)
Always the same answer. It's the user not the AI being blown out of proportion. Tell me, where are all those great amazin applications that were coded 95-100% by AI? Where is the great progress the great new algorithms the great new innovations hiding?
Re:Anthropic acquires Bun by DaiPlusPlus on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @02:59PM (#46126004)
Re:Anthropic acquires Bun by the_overseer on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @03:52PM (#46126694)
From the link:

"For now, I’ll go dogfood my shiny new vibe-coded black box of a programming language on the Advent of Code problem (and as many of the 2025 puzzles as I can), and see what rough edges I can find. I expect them to be equal parts “not implemented yet” and “unexpected interactions of new PL features with the old ones”.

If you’re willing to jump through some Python project dependency hoops, you can try to use FAWK too at your own risk, at Janiczek/fawk on GitHub."

That doesn't sound like some great success. It mostly compiles and doesn't explode. Also I wouldn't call a toy "innovation" or "revolution".

Re:Anthropic acquires Bun by DaiPlusPlus on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @09:55AM (#46135190)
I did take a look at the generated sources when I first saw the article and it seemed coherent and organised, though.
Re:Anthropic acquires Bun by johnfn on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @06:46PM (#46128513)
My stack is React/Express/Drizzle/Postgres/Node/Tailwind. It's built on Hetzner/AWS, which I terraformed with AI. Probably 90-95% of it is AI driven.

It's a private repo, and I won't make it open source just to prove it was written with AI, but I'd be happy to share the prompts. You can also visit the site, if you'd like: https://chipscompo.com/

Re:Anthropic acquires Bun by bopbopbop7 on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @02:57PM (#46125977)
How many agents, tools, MCP & ACP servers, claude hooks, and workflows do I need to set up before English becomes a good programming language?
Re:Anthropic acquires Bun by smcleod on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @04:20PM (#46127026)
One agent, a few sub-agents, 1 MCP server, no "ACP" (never seen that used), no hooks, one workflow that I usually follow.
Re:Anthropic acquires Bun by brobdingnagians on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @02:40PM (#46125740)
Do you know of any YouTube videos where you would say they do a very good job of showing off this style of coding?
Re:Anthropic acquires Bun by simonw on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @02:43PM (#46125781)
I made this one recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy4ci7AoF9Y - notes here: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/6/upgrading-datasette-plu...

My best writing on this topic is still this though (which doesn't include a video): https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/using-llms-for-code/

Re:Anthropic acquires Bun by smj-edison on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @03:57PM (#46126773)
Thanks for this! I've been looking for a good guide to an LLM based workflow, but the modern style of YouTube coding videos really grates on me. I think I might even like this :D
Re:Anthropic acquires Bun by smcleod on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @04:23PM (#46127060)
Always enjoy reading your blog Simon!
Re:Anthropic acquires Bun by brobdingnagians on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @06:33AM (#46133289)
Thank you
Re:Anthropic acquires Bun by smcleod on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @04:23PM (#46127054)
This one is a bit old now so a number of things have changed (I mostly use Claude Code now, Dynamic context (Skills) etc...) but here's a brief TLDR I did early this year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDSLw-6vR4o
Re:Anthropic acquires Bun by samdoesnothing on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @02:53PM (#46125924)
Post a repo
Re:Anthropic acquires Bun by smcleod on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @02:57PM (#46125976)
Re:Anthropic acquires Bun by bopbopbop7 on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @03:53PM (#46126701)
Your best example of something you made with AI is another AI code generator… definitely not beating the AI bubble allegations anytime soon.
Re:Anthropic acquires Bun by smcleod on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @04:21PM (#46127044)
1. I didn't say it was a best example, I replied to a comment asking me to "Post a repo" - I posted a repo. 2. Straw man argument. I was asked for a repo, I posted a repo and clearly you didn't look at the code as it's not an "AI code generator".
Re:Anthropic acquires Bun by bopbopbop7 on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @04:30PM (#46127125)
1. I didn’t ask for a repo. 2. Still wasn’t me. Maybe an AI agent can help you check usernames? 3. Sorry, a plugin for an AI code generator, which is even worse of an example.
Re:Anthropic acquires Bun by samdoesnothing on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @04:34PM (#46127178)
How much time do you think you saved versus writing it yourself if you factored in the time you spent setting up your AI tooling, writing prompts, contexts etc?
Re:Anthropic acquires Bun by Aeolun on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @11:49PM (#46130412)
https://github.com/Aeolun/cool-rust-terminal

I was honestly baffled how fast Claude knocked this out.