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New comment by not_that_d in "All my clients wanted a carousel, now it's an AI chatbot"

not_that_d — Sat, 09 May 2026 08:32:00 +0000

The amount of consultants that are very known and have large presence on developer communities and give a lot of talks and have no idea how to approach real world problems is impressive.

New comment by not_that_d in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

not_that_d — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:37:52 +0000

Asking as a non American. Why would this matter to me? Why should I care about this?

New comment by not_that_d in "Claude Opus 4.7"

not_that_d — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:51:15 +0000

Yeah, no. I canceled my subscription yesterday. It is Claude is unusable right now.

New comment by not_that_d in "Exploiting the most prominent AI agent benchmarks"

not_that_d — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 08:23:29 +0000

You know, after a while this excuse is not valid anymore.

New comment by not_that_d in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

not_that_d — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:17:06 +0000

That depends on what you call "Think" we made the interface of LLM of the second "L", Language. And it can hack our perspective of the thing.

New comment by not_that_d in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

not_that_d — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 07:40:33 +0000

> I don't understand how LLMs actually work...

Plot twist, they don't either. They just throw more hardware and try things up until something sticks.

New comment by not_that_d in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

not_that_d — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 07:35:36 +0000

While true, it influences a lot in the EU

New comment by not_that_d in "I turned my Kindle into my own personal newspaper"

not_that_d — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 11:15:36 +0000

But why? You can get a Kindle with ads, jailbreak it and having Bezos pay the halb of your Device

New comment by not_that_d in "The case for becoming a manager"

not_that_d — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 09:21:33 +0000

To be honest, in my decades working in this, I have never ever saw a Manager that was a good Developer. Maybe it is just my luck.

New comment by not_that_d in "Further human + AI + proof assistant work on Knuth's "Claude Cycles" problem"

not_that_d — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 09:09:05 +0000

Seems like we are ready heading to what the OpenAI CEO wanted "intelligence just available thru a subscription"

New comment by not_that_d in "Migrating to the EU"

not_that_d — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:56:36 +0000

Does ICE needs something?

New comment by not_that_d in "Coding after coders: The end of computer programming as we know it?"

not_that_d — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 18:35:13 +0000

I am now using LLM at 100% at work and producing faster code, while I keep growing my regular skills privately in "old way".

Why? Because when the bubble burst and the companies (including mine) can not pay the 400% price increase and go bankrupt, then I still have keep my brain active and still can do stuff without or less tokens.

How would a AI first company will manage costs after the AI Bubble bursts?

not_that_d — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:55:48 +0000

I, like several people I know in the field, are being carried to do AI first development, using agents, skills etc etc.

It's OK, is the new reality, but I wonder what will happen after the bubble burst and the price per tokens raises significantly. Would we be forced to start doing hand crafted code again? Would the companies accept the price and just pay a lot more?

I wonder...? Do any company even thinks about this and plan for it?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47222385

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New comment by not_that_d in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

not_that_d — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 07:28:37 +0000

What is with the amount of comments talking about other countries in Europe "Doing the same"?

New comment by not_that_d in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

not_that_d — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 07:22:51 +0000

I would like to see a proof of this happening in Europa.

New comment by not_that_d in "How to effectively write quality code with AI"

not_that_d — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 13:07:09 +0000

The funny thing is, when I got a lead position in my job, I just to do real detailed ticket descriptions, going into technical considerations and possible cross domain problems. I did it for the juniors - and to be honest - for my self, since I know if I took that ticket, from that moment to the moment I put some code down I could just forget stuff.

This was pushed back hard by management because it "took too much time to create a ticket". I fought it for some months but at the end I stopped and also really lose the ability and patience of do that. Juniors suffered, implementation took more time. Time passed.

Now, I am supposed to do the exact same thing, but even better and for yesterday.

New comment by not_that_d in "Software engineers should be a little bit cynical"

not_that_d — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 09:40:14 +0000

What the post fails to understand is that a lot of the "top" people if big companies just doesn't understand the regular user because, well, they do not live a life like the regular users.

New comment by not_that_d in "Is any of you using LLMs to create full features in big enterprise apps?"

not_that_d — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 08:19:52 +0000

Besides my other response, it can also be I am not smart enough for it.

New comment by not_that_d in "Is any of you using LLMs to create full features in big enterprise apps?"

not_that_d — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 08:17:38 +0000

The code is quite easy to follow to be honest, we have documented a lot of stuff and segmented functionality into libraries that follow an app/feature/models pattern. Almost every service we have, has unit tests explicitly describing what the public api is doing or supposed to do on several scenarios, we never test implementation details.

Given it to new people of course carry questions, but most of them (juniors) could just follow the code given an entry point for that task, this from BE to FE.

I use the github copilot premium models available.

> I routinely make an implementation plan with Claude and then step away for 15 mins while it spins - the results aren’t perfect but fixing that remaining 10% is better than writing 100% of it myself.

I have to be honest, I just did this two times and the amount of code that needed to be fixed, and the mental overload to find open bugs was much more than just guide the LLM on every step. But this was a couple of months ago.

Is any of you using LLMs to create full features in big enterprise apps?

not_that_d — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 06:28:56 +0000

Let me be clear first. I don't dislike LLMs, I query them, trigger agents to do stuff where I kind of know what the end goal is and to make analisys of small parts of an application.

That said, everytime I give it something a little more complex that do something in a single file script it fails me horribly. Either the code is really bad, or the approach is as bad a someone who doesn't really know what to do or it plains start doing things that I explicitly said not to do in the initial prompt.

I have sometimes asked my LLM fan's coworkers to come and help when that happens and they also are not able to "fix it", but somehow I am the one doing it wrong due "wrong prompt" or "lack of correct context".

I have created a lot of "Agents.md" files, drop files into the context window... Nothing.

When I need to do green field stuff, or PoCs it delivers fast, but then applying it to work inside an existent big application fails.

The only place where I feel as "productive" as I heard from other people is when I do stuff in languages or technologies I don't know at all, but then again, I also don't know if that functional code I get at the end is broken in things I am not aware of.

Are any of you guys really using LLMs to create full features in big enterprise apps?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46214731

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