Re:The AI coding divide: craft lovers vs. result chasers
by FabianCarbonara on Friday March 13, 2026 @04:22AM
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For me AI unlocked building things I just couldn't before. My creativity and ingenuity now have an outlet that wasn't possible without agentic coding tools. That's genuinely exciting. But I also keep wondering: how long until the level of abstraction I'm working at now gets automated too?
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Re:The AI coding divide: craft lovers vs. result chasers
by tovej on Friday March 13, 2026 @12:04PM
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Is it really valid to call it "ingenuity" if you weren't able to execute projects before?
Gen-AI has not enabled me to develop anything I wasn't able to do before, and I consider myself to be an average developer.
Re:The AI coding divide: craft lovers vs. result chasers
by FabianCarbonara on Saturday March 14, 2026 @04:35AM
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I would say so ;-)
Right now AI is a powerful tool for me. It helps me express ingenuity on a more abstract level, e.g. conceptual or product thinking rather than implementation details. Some of my current projects I could have built without AI, but not in the time I had. AI moved them from unrealistic to actually doable.
Re:The AI coding divide: craft lovers vs. result chasers
by tovej on Saturday March 14, 2026 @07:38AM
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What are these ingenious projects then, pray tell?
Re:The AI coding divide: craft lovers vs. result chasers
by FabianCarbonara on Monday March 16, 2026 @01:27AM
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Have a look at my blog! Is linked in my profile :)
Re:The AI coding divide: craft lovers vs. result chasers
by tovej on Monday March 16, 2026 @07:29AM
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you have three entries, none of them seem to be about a specific project, all of them seem to be about ways of setting up agentic development. I'm not going to comb them for crumbs.
Surely you can just tell me: what is, in your opinion, the best project to showcase what AI coding methods can achieve? Preferrably a project that is polished enough that it can actually be applied somewhere.
I never get answers when I ask _what_ people actually build using AI. Please tell me.