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Posted by ltratt 14 hours ago

We should be more ambitious with the software we build(danluu.com)
455 points | 404 commentspage 5
faceless3 2 hours ago|
I've ported Jetpack Compose to Rust and my post got removed for "low effort" from r/rust. That's not about slop but more about preserving the status of things like they were when every code line mean to be typed on a keyboard with physical fingers and from the human brain.

btw I've set up the nightly benchmarks on my ui framework and it's beaten all of the current ones. Because old-era human frameworks can't afford to crunch optimizations non stop 24/7 like ai agents can.

https://github.com/samoylenkodmitry/Cranpose

mgaunard 4 hours ago||
So by "more ambitious", people really mean "waste more tokens"?
piro0919 9 hours ago||
I'm building a fan site for a Japanese baseball team on my own. Besides news and videos, it pulls player stats from more than ten sites, from the league's official site to Wikipedia. Writing that many scrapers by hand would have been impossible for me, so I wouldn't have even tried without Claude Code.
lijok 12 hours ago||
It’s sad the amount of times I’ve heard super talented programmers say “ofcourse we’re not gonna build another X” then proceed writing a wrapper around X and pretend that’s a product.
tornikeo 6 hours ago||
I took this advice to the heart.

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2001zhaozhao 12 hours ago||
I think getting a good reputation for being able to build real, ambitious software with AI will be a really important thing going forward.
buzzerbetrayed 11 hours ago|
I don’t. I think we’ll zoom right past that benchmark. In a couple years your grandma will be able to build real, ambitious software with AI better than you can today. Shortly after that AI won’t even need Grandma.
coretx 8 hours ago||
The best way to improve your solutions is to study ever worse problems.
RomanPushkin 11 hours ago||
Not trying to be mean, but first of all, we should be more ambitious using CSS.
nullpoint420 8 hours ago||
Disagree. Most websites I need to have reader mode on to read, but not this one.
zzo38computer 9 hours ago||
I think the CSS they use (which isn't much) is good enough (and "img{max-width:100%}" really ought to be the default setting even if the user disables CSS).
chiengineer3 5 hours ago||
Chitown26.com

My website is a from scratch arcade room + added some roms to it

rr808 10 hours ago|
I really liked this talk about how the premise of "software is eating the world" is incorrect. I think AI coding tools proves the point that software part is easy, its the hardware that is the important part. We can't really be more ambitious with software when ultimate pure software is limited in what is possible.

Bryan Cantrill: Andreessen’s Folly - The False Dichotomy of Software and Hardware https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0JjG0Qfwi8

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