Yeah every time I see one of these articles posted on HN I know I'll see a bunch of comments like "well here's how I use claude code: I keep it on a tight leash and have short feedback loops, so that I'm still the driver, and have markdown files that explain the style I'm going for...". Which is fine lol but I'm tired of seeing the exact same conversations.
It's exhausting to hear about AI all the time but it's fun to watch history happen. In a decade we'll look back at all these convos and remember how wild of a time it was to be a programmer.
I'm thiiiis close to writing a Firefox extension that auto-hides any HN headline with an LLM/AI-related keyword in the title, just so I can find something interesting on here again.
I'm thinking something that would actually use HN's "Hide" feature, so other stories will populate the page after the AI ones are hidden. Is that something uBO could do?
You make a good point, I don't believe so. I currently block most LLM/AI threads and some pages can get quite sparse. Would love to check that out if you get around to putting that together!
Honestly might give that a go, yeah. Brand new, low stakes, throwaway projects are one of the few things these tools are actually genuinely pretty useful for.
It's fun to see Vibe Coders discover the basics of project management in real time without ever reading a book :)
That's what programming with LLMs is, it's just project management: You split the tasks into manageable chunks (ones that can be completed in a single context window), you need to have good onboarding documentation (CLAUDE.md or the equivalent) and good easy to access documentation (docs/ with markdown files).
Exactly what you use to manage a team of actual human programmers.
It's exhausting to hear about AI all the time but it's fun to watch history happen. In a decade we'll look back at all these convos and remember how wild of a time it was to be a programmer.