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Re:Jonathan Blow – If AI Solved Coding, Why Is My Software S... by rmbz on Saturday November 14, 2026 @12:31AM (#50494297)
It was crap, it's good now is the positive equivalent of the boy who cried wolf. We've been hearing this bullshit so, so many times that no sane person would care to listen without some serious hard evidence and no your zero user vibe slop repo launched yesterday or "I'm so much more productive…dicking around the codebase but zero useful features to be seen by the user" doesn't cut it.
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Re:Jonathan Blow – If AI Solved Coding, Why Is My Software S... by BosunoB on Saturday November 14, 2026 @12:53AM (#50494405)
It's just obviously true if you use the models regularly. I don't know how anybody can come away feeling otherwise.
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Re:Jonathan Blow – If AI Solved Coding, Why Is My Software S... by wolvesechoes on Saturday November 14, 2026 @01:03AM (#50494456)
Through just using them. Some of us really have some expectations.
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Re:Jonathan Blow – If AI Solved Coding, Why Is My Software S... by philipp-gayret on Saturday November 14, 2026 @02:00AM (#50494716)
Could you share something that we can replicate, where SOTA models and harnesses, i.e. a Claude, does not work where say a junior or medior engineer new to your team would solve the problem?
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Re:Jonathan Blow – If AI Solved Coding, Why Is My Software S... by skydhash on Saturday November 14, 2026 @05:05AM (#50495664)
Do people expect an eternal junior engineer in their teams? Even with a recent hire, there’s a deadline to the onboarding and hand holding process. Generally after three months, you were expected to deliver with no oversight other than peer reviews. It was a good deal for the team. Spend three months teaching, and get a productive team member for two years or more.

Now it’s permanent baby sitting.

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Re:Jonathan Blow – If AI Solved Coding, Why Is My Software S... by Dwelve on Saturday November 14, 2026 @02:32AM (#50494878)
Ok, so NOW that the models are awesome, i assume you will drop a lot of impressive software, correct? You were not able to do that a year ago because they were bad, however, that bottleneck is gone NOW, so NOW you will deliver, right?
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Re:Jonathan Blow – If AI Solved Coding, Why Is My Software S... by RideOnTime22 on Saturday November 14, 2026 @09:17AM (#50497207)
It's so obviously true until the next model comes out. Or until a non-American model comes out matching it, then it's "no one could using AI tools for coding until this new GPT/Claude model came out"
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