Such low level grunt work is what AI is good for, no one denies that.
What some of us are saying is that AI is poor at figuring out what to build, how best to architecture it, and what to avoid.
What some of us are saying is that AI is poor at figuring out what to build, how best to architecture it, and what to avoid.
Absolutely not at all. Every single day that I work with Claude, there is abundant evidence that AI sucks at these. Ask me for examples if you need them.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50220976
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50165791
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50159827
The first links shows a basic failure of reasoning, which would have gone unnoticed if I was just vibe-coding.
The second link shows weak architectural sense and an inability to see the big picture.
The last link in particular is telling: the agents worked with me (over weeks to months) to implement a db abstraction layer without ever bringing up the fact that as it stands, that would have never worked with any indexes at all. I did not constrain them to my choices, but they never stopped me with that design. It took my eagle-eyed attention to their offhand comments to notice this problem, which then required a lot of rework to fix.
For flagged threads, you can go to:
I suggest putting them on a blog or something and linking to that, rather than HN comments.