The difference between "today's task" and "accretive work"

Re:The difference between "today's task" and "accretive work" by wseqyrku on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @02:46AM (#48828433)

> AI vibe-coding is probably filling in the middle-ground [..] and it is accretive in the sense that someone can build on top of it

To me 'accretive work' means something you do at a lower level than your task at hand which by itself doesn't count progress, but rather lay the groundwork for it so it's compounding from there on. AI has nothing to do with this.

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Re:The difference between "today's task" and "accretive work" by KolibriFly on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @06:53AM (#48830304)

I think the argument is that AI changes the cost of creating that groundwork, not the definition of it

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Re:The difference between "today's task" and "accretive work" by wseqyrku on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @07:07AM (#48830399)

I mean a groundwork you can rely on for the rest of your code.

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