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Posted by speckx 14 hours ago

Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish(blog.matthewbrunelle.com)
237 points | 129 commentspage 3
aokdi 8 hours ago|
Yes, you can revive it into worthless slop. Learning next to nothing for yourself and achieving a hollow sense of satisfaction at best.

Maybe even shamelessly post it as a Show HN along with the other 99% of worthless slop submissions there.

rjh29 8 hours ago|
I want app X. I know how to code it but it'll take a whole weekend/vacation days. I would learn nothing. Now I can use AI to make it. What exactly am I losing here?
maplethorpe 5 hours ago|||
How do you know you'd learn nothing from it?
aokdi 8 hours ago|||
Your dignity.
CharlesW 7 hours ago||
As you perch comfortably in your Throne of Purity, it's worth remembering that the average software developer sits on top of 10+ layers of abstraction (not counting hardware).
bdangubic 10 hours ago||
projects you were never going to finish should stay projects that are never finished :)
throwatdem12311 9 hours ago|
effort needed used to be a gatekeeper for bad ideas

now Claude will gas you up and tell you your bad ideas are actually the most amazing thing it’s ever heard

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EverMemory 4 hours ago||
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phoebe_builds 5 hours ago||
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CoherenceDaddy 9 hours ago||
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fengge 9 hours ago||
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dang 10 hours ago||
[stub for offtopicness]

[we've hopefully deprovokified the title now]

WaxProlix 10 hours ago||
To use agentic what? Off topic as heck but I really dislike this trend of coercing adjectives into true nominals - we're using programmatic! - like some sort of even-more-obnoxious variant on the verb to noun ('the ask') process.

Why does it bother me so? I have no idea.

tensegrist 10 hours ago||
blame the hn title rules (although i would just have substituted "AI")

i doubt anyone is nouning "agentic" of their own accord (yet)

operatingthetan 10 hours ago||
Just "leaders" at consulting firms mostly
sailfast 10 hours ago|||
It’s ok to use coding assistance tools for anything you’d like! Not that you needed the permission of some random on the internet.
hard_times 10 hours ago||
Oh? How very kind of the author to allow me to.
lawwantsin17 8 hours ago||
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nothinkjustai 8 hours ago|
What is the point of using AI for a side project? Isn’t the point of a side project to A) have fun writing code or B) challenge yourself or C) learn something new, and usually all 3? Slopping out random stuff you have no attachment to, taught you nothing, and that feels bad to pass off as your own work accomplishes nothing.
xXSLAYERXx 6 hours ago||
> What is the point of using AI for a side project

Why is this so hard for you to understand?

> Slopping out random stuff you have no attachment to, taught you nothing, and that feels bad to pass off as your own work accomplishes nothing.

You seem frustrated that people have different motivations than you. Have you looked into getting an AI girlfriend?

rjh29 8 hours ago||
D) to solve a problem in your personal life? To make an app that you wish existed but didn't?