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Show HN: A client side PDF and article reader backed by Google Drive(pdf-reader-peach.vercel.app)
4 points by northfield27 2mo ago|0 comments
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The Emotional Cost of AI-Assisted Coding
3 points by northfield27 4mo ago|1 comments
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by northfield27 4mo ago
Excellent article! Aptly describes what I have been feeling and thinking about the claims many AI optimists make. --- > He produced a great deal of code, [...] He could not, when asked, explain how any of it actually worked. [...] When o
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by northfield27 5mo ago
You mean you coding is fully coding agent driven?
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Top Programmers Return to Hand-Coding Amid AI Tool Doubts(x.com)
6 points by northfield27 5mo ago|6 comments
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by northfield27 5mo ago
I think I was right about AI coding tools, but I was probably just early: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46769188#46782672 I’ve been using and experimenting with LLM-based coding tools for ~2 years, mostly in research
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by northfield27 5mo ago
Haha, i was taking N4 and N6, but didn’t figure the steps after that. To win we need to let knight die because rook can move multiple steps to kill the king. From a third person perspective R2 is a deceptive move that takes advantage algori
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by northfield27 7mo ago
I have also felt something similar. A few days back, I tried to implement a PDF reader by pure vibe coding. I used all my free Antigravity, Cursor, and Co-pilot tokens to create a half-baked, but working Next.js PDF-reader that (to be hones
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by northfield27 7mo ago
> If everything passes, it ships, automatically. If something fails, the agent fixes it. A human only gets involved when the system genuinely doesn’t know what to do. This right here, he conveniently skipped elaborating how will a human
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by northfield27 7mo ago
Agreed but sadly, many people are too optimistic with AI and are completely forgetting that they can be the part of next layoffs. And others are not able to believe the (not extreme) but visible speed boost from pragmatic use of AI. And sad
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by northfield27 7mo ago
> You can write 10x the code - good code. You can review and edit it before committing it. Nothing changes from a code quality perspective. Only speed. I agree, but this is an oversimplification - we don't always get the speed boost
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Why Software Engineering Isn't Engineering(substack.com)
2 points by northfield27 8mo ago|0 comments
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by northfield27 8mo ago
Agreed
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by northfield27 8mo ago
Isn't that too much work? Instead, just learning concepts with AI and then using HI (Human Intelligence) & AI to solve the problem at hand—by going through code line by line and writing tests - is a better approach productivity-, c
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by northfield27 8mo ago
++Hard Agree.
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by northfield27 8mo ago
I partially agree, but I don’t think “design ways to test the code without inspecting it manually line by line” is a good strategy. Tests only cover cases you already know to look for. In my experience, many important edge cases are discove
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by northfield27 8mo ago
Instead of "vending machine", I see many people calling generative AI "slot machine", which more aptly describes current genAI tools. Yes, we can use it 10,000 times to refine our recipes, but "did we learn from it&
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by northfield27 8mo ago
Edit: Changed title Previous title: "Anthropic: AI Coding shows no productivity gains; impairs skill development" The previous title oversimplified the claim to "all" developers. I found the previous title meaningful whi
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How AI impacts skill formation(arxiv.org)
236 points by northfield27 8mo ago|5 comments
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by northfield27 8mo ago
For AI-coding, I use Copilot with whatever default model under free plan it gives.
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by northfield27 8mo ago
Agreed. AI-generated code is "mid" by nature. You won’t feel amazed seeing AI-generated code because its "reasoning" competes with that of a potato. I have recently started exploring AI-coding -- note that I said AI codi
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by northfield27 8mo ago
Agreed. I believe this is going to be the trend. I don’t think LLM context will able to digest large codebases and their algorithms are not going to reason like SREs in the next coming years. And given the current hype and market, investors
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by northfield27 8mo ago
Thanks, this sounds interesting!
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by northfield27 8mo ago
Agreed - ego does push individuals towards mastery because it provides stability and status. But the ones too tied to ego gets lost in history. What I don't agree with is the current hype based marketing. First calculators and computer
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Ask HN: What are good resources to get familiar with AI code editors?
9 points by northfield27 8mo ago|8 comments
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by northfield27 8mo ago
I have tried using coding agents and was left doing more with myself, so I agree with the broader idea. https://x.com/gdb/status/2013164524606775544?s=61 But who is gonna tell him. I don’t understand what these CE
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by northfield27 8mo ago
It depends. If you have the power (as the post mentions - like a CEO) you can suggest, direct or butcher a project and no one would see you as a negative person. But you can get butchered when you don't have the authority to poke aroun
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by northfield27 8mo ago
One thing this blog probably misses is what happens when we suggest something to fix a project’s trajectory, they ignore it, but eventually they silently adopt the suggestion and improve the project. This results in a net loss of ROI: we ri
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by northfield27 8mo ago
Is it a promotion?
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by northfield27 8mo ago
I agree with your POV. Technology has been improved exponentially and from a human POV having systems smarter than us can be good (if we have control over them but to think about that makes us smarter and powerful, but that's another d

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