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Re:Please Use AI by culopatin on Friday May 29, 2026 @11:02AM (#48323969)
AI is like cheap void calories. Writing by hand is calories from a good home cooked meal with all the nutrients and love, AI code (unless maybe you worked on putting together an AI system and the harness is your build), feels like calories from a Sprite.

Also I’ve been thinking that ai code is like cheap amazon furniture and hand crafted is well… hand crafted.

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Re:Please Use AI by number6 on Friday May 29, 2026 @11:24AM (#48324340)
Will there be a point where hand crafted does end you somewhere like the Toaster Project [1]

[1]https://www.thomasthwaites.com/the-toaster-project/

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Re:Please Use AI by gmueckl on Friday May 29, 2026 @01:00PM (#48325967)
Wr are already there, in a sense: the amount of basic software in a box that is required to produce more software is already huge. And so is the supply chains behind it.
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Re:Please Use AI by SpaceNoodled on Friday May 29, 2026 @02:18PM (#48327144)
The idea of having all of those steps generated so unreliably is haunting.
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Re:Please Use AI by boringg on Friday May 29, 2026 @11:22AM (#48324298)
Your analogy is apt. The challenge is that most of the world runs on cheap calories and cheap furniture and that seems to be growing more and more.
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