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Re:Show HN: I rebuilt the only parts of my IDE I use, in Rus... by noncoml on Monday June 22, 2026 @02:26PM (#48633976)
> Isn't this basically admitting you had nothing to do with this project

No. They had nothing to do with the code. The project is not only the code.

> and anyone else could pay an ai to make the same thing easily?

This assumes that the difficult part is typing code, but in reality the most difficult part is to know what to build, specify it, evaluate and iterate on it.

If it were truly as easy as asking an AI once, then everyone would already be shipping successful products daily.

AI just lowers the bar to entry.

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Re:Show HN: I rebuilt the only parts of my IDE I use, in Rus... by kyle-ssg on Monday June 22, 2026 @02:43PM (#48634244)
> If it were truly as easy as asking an AI once, then everyone would already be shipping successful products daily. AI just lowers the bar to entry.

I could not agree more! I think there's a finite group of people who have a strong software engineering background who really know the rewarding pain and are able to embrace AI in an optimistic way.

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Re:Show HN: I rebuilt the only parts of my IDE I use, in Rus... by danielrmay on Monday June 22, 2026 @03:57PM (#48635238)
Yes!
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