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Re:Ask HN: Work on robotics or agents? on Friday January 10, 2025 @04:31PM (#42660494)
Where have I heard that before? Right, it was in the book "My Job Went To India", which was published more than 20 years ago.
Re:Web apps built with Ruby on Rails on Friday January 10, 2025 @03:57PM (#42660122)
This is the thing when people say "LLMs write the boilerplate code for you"--why are you writing all that boilerplate? If you're dutifully cranking out boilerplate instead of creating abstractions that make it unnecessary to write boilerplate, you're a mediocre engineer at best. Add an LLM, and now you're a mediocre engineer with a mediocre simulation of a mediocre engineer.