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Re:Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't on Thursday June 11, 2026 @11:44AM (#48491934)
I'm solidly a generalist, I custom create designs for products and implement them, and also work on backends and large scale production ml systems. I would actually have to agree with the person you are replying to - simply because backends are text problems, (an LLMs domain), and frontends are visual - llms are just still not quite as good at seeing details as humans, whereas they can scan a large codebase for possible problems much faster than any human could. Both areas need careful supervision and feedback loops, adversarial reviews etc - but for the frontend, I find myself having to do much more manual work actually checking myself, because an llm just doesn't get symmetry if it doesn't perfectly correlate to margin being 16px on both sides of a box, etc, ie symmetry you can see in code. Or whether a design "feels" nice to look at, etc. But with backend, you give it proper guidance to create tests, do benchmarking, follow sane design patterns, etc, and its very effective.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026) on Monday May 11, 2026 @12:30PM (#48097204)
working on artifactguesser.com - where you see an image of an artifact and guess the country of origin, and the date. free hobby project.

notable things about it: have over 230k artifacts in the database, aggregated from 7 museums - might be the biggest artifact index on the web, but idk didn't look hard.

has multiplayer. Its just fun to see weird stuff you wouldn't be able to see in museums. Its stumbleupon but for artifacts. Its been very fun to work on.

Future stuff: 3D museums, 3D artifacts, and building hidden tombs to protect and preserve artifacts into the far future

Show HN: Artifactguesser

https://artifactguesser.com

Hi y'all,Was playing geoguesser and thought, "Would it be fun to guess artifact locations like this, and add a time element?" And behold, it was fun. Its just a side-project, but has all the trimmings, multiplayer, timed rounds, various modes (Ea-Nasir Mode is my fav). Completely free to play, though any artifact image is buyable as a form of apparel for anyone wanting to support me making...

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