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Re:Ask HN: What is up with all the AI doomerism I'm seeing? on Sunday September 20, 2026 @12:35PM (#49777417)
Yes. You need to hold its hand for it to produce anything good, and at that point I'd rather write it myself. It's useful for reviewing snippets, but just letting it loose on your codebase results in shit like windows 11, or 99% of websites made in the last year.
Anthropic's own study showed the same, yet people ignore it.

Ask HN: What is up with all the AI doomerism I'm seeing?

I'm constantly seeing posts about how "AI is already better than humans", "programmers are useless" "everything can be vibe-coded by someone with 0 technical experience".Is everyone online just that bad at programming? I didn't believe software could get any worse than what was already being put out, but since the adoption of AI I have been proven wrong. Every vibe-coded software I've used has...

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Re:Ask HN: Am I missing something with AI on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @11:33AM (#48646697)
The way AI is able to interact with outside resources is pretty impressive, but the quality of code it produces to me is still questionable, more so in the larger scope, and the errors it produces are sometimes hard to catch because they're not normal human errors.

Recently I tried to get Claude to write a script that produces large amounts of code so I could profile a compiler. The script ended up outputing code that uses variables outside of their scope, didn't utilize like 90% of the features of the language, and basically ended up being something that I could make by spamming copy paste.

The script itself was also written in really weird way, utilizing recursion for pretty much everything when most of what it did could be done in simple loops. It ended up being a bit of a nightmare to fix and the entire time I was asking myself "why didn't I just write this in 30 minutes instead of going through all of this".

Ask HN: Am I missing something with AI

I constantly hear developers around me talk about how AI has completely changed their life and how they don't even program anymore, they just prompt. But any time I've used it, the output has always been off. And when the output is off I have to go and read through everything, learn how it works and fix it, which at that point I might as well write it myself.I just don't understand what other...

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Ask HN: Anyone using their own custom text editor?

I don't think I've ever been truly happy with a text editor, the closes I got is my current neovim setup that has just way too many plugins but it still just isn't quite what I want. So I thought, how hard could it be to write one? Anyone gone down this road before?

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