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by mathieudombrock 4 hours ago
Why would you choose to have the ai use a language you don't understand? Isn't this basically admitting you had nothing to do with this project and anyone else could pay an ai to make the same thing easily?

Is this something you expect other people to use?

Are you planning to maintain this?

Are you making a point about ai capabilities?

Is this just a joke?

I guess I don't really understand the point of posts like this.

2 comments

I'm making a point about IDEs, I think their usefulness is declining. No, I do not expect other people to use this, but they can and I will.
> Isn't this basically admitting you had nothing to do with this project

No. They had nothing to do with the code. The project is not only the code.

> and anyone else could pay an ai to make the same thing easily?

This assumes that the difficult part is typing code, but in reality the most difficult part is to know what to build, specify it, evaluate and iterate on it.

If it were truly as easy as asking an AI once, then everyone would already be shipping successful products daily.

AI just lowers the bar to entry.

> If it were truly as easy as asking an AI once, then everyone would already be shipping successful products daily. AI just lowers the bar to entry.

I could not agree more! I think there's a finite group of people who have a strong software engineering background who really know the rewarding pain and are able to embrace AI in an optimistic way.

Yes!