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Show HN: Good AI Task – a tool for asking AI what it can and can't do

jmt710 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:07:59 +0000

Describe a task, and AI will give you a breakdown of whether it can do your task well, poorly, or somewhere in between. I built it mostly because I kept getting asked "what is AI even good for" and fumbling the answer.

The most fun use is testing it on things you already know it can't do and seeing how it explains why it can't be done.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904167

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New comment by jmt710 in "The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product"

jmt710 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:10:27 +0000

Do you ever think that maybe your biased? I ask because I get the feeling from a lot of professional programmers that they feel like they are better and smarter than everyone and everything else. No matter how good an LLM or AI in general gets at programming task, people who make a living programming will always have a problem with it. There is going to come a time when you're going to be obsolete. I hate to say it, but it's coming and the hostility twords the tech isn't going to save your job.

New comment by jmt710 in "Terence Tao, at 8 years old (1984) [pdf]"

jmt710 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:04:48 +0000

I had a child prodigy friend growing up. He had graduated college before most of us were in highschool. Long story short, he turned to a life of crime, stole millions of dollars from high tech companies and ended up killing himself in a plane crash. It's hard out there for the super smart.

New comment by jmt710 in "Breaking the spell of vibe coding"

jmt710 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 22:22:00 +0000

I have zero issues with things going sideways on even the most complicated task. I don't understand why people struggle so much, it's easy to get it to do the right thing without having to hand hold you just need to be better at what you're asking for.

New comment by jmt710 in "AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder"

jmt710 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:32:27 +0000

These arguments absolutely infuriate me. You're code is not that unique. Lots of people write the same snippet everyday and have no idea that somebody else just wrote the same thing.

It's such a crock that you can somehow claim you're the only person who can write that snippet and now everyone else owes you something. No. No they don't. Get over it.

Writing a book is different. Lifting pages or chapters is different because it's much harder for two people to write the exact same thing. Code is code, it follows a formula and a everyone uses that formula.