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WHO. CARES.

I guess my ears kind of turn off when you say "it's all slop, none of the apps are good, and it's a failure because no one has used AI to make the next Salesforce".

I have found agentic coding to be extremely useful for a bunch of small, middleware, very focused bits of software for small businesses:

* A company had a very specific scheduling need, they needed to move about 8-15 staff around with a bunch of different shifts, and have custom reports on who was working how many hours, and have the employees get a nice clean email summarizing their schedule

* A manager wanted a very simple "let me send a text to add a to-do to the group list" need

* A sales team of 3 wanted to be able to type pricing of raw goods into their phone, have it compared to other market sources, and have it text the other 2 salespeople and their manager when they were out in the field

All of these were coded with Codex in about 4 hours with further refinements over the next week of back-and-forth with the people using the tools.

I suppose yes we could have found some custom middleware solutions that did similar things, but it's nice to be able to make a web page or tiny mobile app that just does EXACTLY what the person wants.

It's hard to do that and then listen to someone who says it's all just garbage.

genuine question. if i have a tightly-defined unit test and Claude writes a blob of code that passes it, does it matter what's in the blob?

if "false dichotomy" was a whole ass essay

as if you're choosing between "Claude, tell me how to make an omelette" and walking across the forest path to your sylvan neighbor, the former Michelin-star chef who set up an artisanal microgastropub by the pond

as opposed to googling "omelet recipe"

I think missing from the turns is when companies do AI layoffs, then realize they aren't as productive as they thought and have to rehire 70% of the people they let go.

it reminds people (or specifically, very online gen Z and gen alpha) of the N-word because there was a popular TikTok account that mapped "clanker" to 1960s civil rights parody videos and it was clear he was substituting it for the N-word

The kneejerk accusations of LLM even when it passes easily-available tests is intellectually lazy and does not belong on HN.

I think it's more just bragging about how "powerful" their companies are while knowing they're on top of a bubble that will burst and they'll have to get a bailout from Daddy Trump.

84% likely human on zerogpt, but you could have done that yourself.

>The data centers are being used to power the AI models that have been taking the technology world by storm.

This isn't really true, is it? They are being built and designed to be AI-ready, but as of today, more electricity and usage is for cloud and video storage/streaming.

All recipe sites are like this, because of SEO

I think a much smaller percentage of smart high school seniors want to go into journalism at all. And if they do they'll probably just start a TikTok debating people

Yeah there's a few red flags here that belie the problem with this piece.

Women emphasize "empathy over rationality" ... what a strange dichotomy. As if empathy could not be rational, or rational thought automatically leads to dis-empathy.

She asserts that feminine culture emphasizes cohesion, but then brings up a biracial (what's the point of this note?) reporter at the NYT not having coffee with Bari Weiss and says that this snub is "feminine". What? Are woman about cohesion or not? The previous graph would assert that colleagues would have coffee to not hurt each others' feelings, but then she claims the backhanded animosity ALSO as feminine.

Make up your mind, woman.