Comment by bartread

Comment by bartread 16 hours ago

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> No more AI thought pieces until you tell us what you build!

Let me fix that for you:

No more AI thought pieces until you SHOW us what you build!

And I think it can safely be generalised to:

No more thought pieces until you show us what you build!

And that goes double for posts on LinkedIn.

strange_quark 15 hours ago

I’d take it even further: I want to see the prompts! I’ll concede we’ve arrived at a point where the coding agents work, but I’m still unconvinced they’re actually saving anyone time. From my AI-pilled coworkers, it appears they’re all spending half an hour creating a plan with hyper-specific prompts, like “make this specific change to lines XXX-YYY in this file”, “move this function over here and change the args”, etc. As far as I can tell, this is current best practice, and I’ve tried it, but I’m always disappointed with the either the quality or the speed, usually both.

  • dullcrisp 14 hours ago

    Look learning vim is hard some people just want to describe their edits using natural language.

  • tempodox 14 hours ago

    Yea, if I were interested in that level of micromanagement, I would have become a manager.