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Re:Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion by embedding-shape on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @09:16AM (#48554825)
Ok, so before I couldn't (/didnt have the time to) build cross-platform native desktop applications with minimal amount of 3rd party dependencies, but now I "can". What exactly am I unable to verify here?
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Re:Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion by bluefirebrand on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @11:55AM (#48557255)
Couldn't is "didn't have the skills to"

That's pretty different from "didn't have the time/money/motivation to"

If you didn't have the skills to build something before then you don't have the skills to verify something is correct after

Clicking around a finished UI is not verifying

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Re:Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion by embedding-shape on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @11:57AM (#48557291)
> That's pretty different from "didn't have the time/money/motivation to"

Maybe start at the first message here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48553444

I still don't have the skill/knowledge to build cross-platform native applications the way I'm doing it with an agent now. I am still able to verify it's correct. How is that possible if what you say is correct?

> Clicking around a finished UI is not verifying

Definitively a part of it, if you care about having mouse interactions and having graphical UIs.

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