Re:They lied to you. Building software is hard
by Throaway1985232 on Monday February 02, 2026 @02:19PM
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I’ve seen otherwise intelligent and capable people get so addicted to the convenience and potential of LLMs, that they start to lose their ability to slowly go through problems step by step. it’s sad.
Re:They lied to you. Building software is hard
by sgarland on Monday February 02, 2026 @09:00PM
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Agreed. My work is mandating Claude Code usage this week for everyone. I spent all day today getting it to write tickets, code, and tests for something I knew how to do. I don’t understand the appeal. Telling the AI “commit those changes and then push,” then waiting for the result, takes way longer than gcmsg <commit msg> && gp.
I'd rather spend my time thinking about the problem and solving it, than thinking about how to get some software to stochasticaly select language that appears like it is thinking about the problem to then implement a solution I'm going to have to check carefully.
Much of the LLM hype cycle breaks down into "anyone can create software now", which TFA makes a convincing argument for being a lie, and "experts are now going to be so much more productive", which TFA - and several studies posted here in recent months - show is not actually the case.
Your walk-through is the reason why. You've not got magic for free, you've got something kinda cool that needs operational management and constant verification.