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by scotty79 13 days ago
> sentence suggests that you can just type “build me Slack 2” into Claude and have it fart out a fully-functional, production-ready piece of software, rather than a quasi-functional mound of code-slop

How's that different from randomly selected human developer team? Other than price, time and hr. Most software project always failed for a reason.
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tripleee 13 days ago
answer it yourself: what would you do if a non-technical person came to you and asked to hire you to build "slack v2"

If your next move is to create a pile of quasi-functional slop because they under-specified it.. that's not normal

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scotty79 13 days ago
That's normal in sense of being a practical outcome of most software development projects.

The truth is, software development process always produced mostly garbage. Looking at only successful projects and saying "see? that's what humans do, completely unlike AI" is a bucket of survivorship bias.

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