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New comment by reluctant_dev in "Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff"

reluctant_dev — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:02:42 +0000

Outside of frontier model providers, the vast majority of "AI" branded products/features just don't feel high quality.

AI generated media (art, music, etc) is very repulsive to interact with and so many products feel like they have led with AI solutions to problems that don't exist.

Ask HN: Does anyone have their PMs shipping code to customer-facing products?

reluctant_dev — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:40:32 +0000

For context: my team has 3 product engineers and a PM/product lead at an small series A startup.

Our PM has recently been asking to start contributing changes/features into our core (web) customer facing application using coding agents. The PM doesn't have any engineering background but has experience using Claude Code/Codex to develop hobby style apps in his free time for the past year or so.

I am curious of what other teams are doing and how its working out?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48549065

Points: 5

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New comment by reluctant_dev in "Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration"

reluctant_dev — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:47:57 +0000

Our product lead/manager recently sent me an AI generated PRD (complete with a Claude Code spec!) to build a core feature which we have had for over 2 years (and is a highly used core feature by our customers).

I just can't imagine tanking my trust with my coworkers by doing something like that.

New comment by reluctant_dev in "Claude Design"

reluctant_dev — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:27:40 +0000

Maybe I am using it wrong but it feels much closer to Lovable than Figma. I was expecting this to feel like the two products combined. Certainly better than Lovable though, but a little disappointing.

New comment by reluctant_dev in "I went to America's worst national parks so you don't have to"

reluctant_dev — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:19:00 +0000

I have gone in the summer once and it was busy but still an amazing experience. I have been twice in the winter/off season (they clear the roads right after snow!) and we had the park basically to ourselves. Was absolutely fantastic.

New comment by reluctant_dev in "Claude Code login fails with OAuth timeout on Windows"

reluctant_dev — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:17:22 +0000

This resolved it for me as well but not sure if this was just a timing thing.

New comment by reluctant_dev in "[dead]"

reluctant_dev — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 03:27:50 +0000

I can't articulate why but AI generated images like this are so off putting. I am actively trying to avoid my toddler from seeing stuff like this.

New comment by reluctant_dev in "The Waymo World Model"

reluctant_dev — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:11:21 +0000

San Francisco isn't uniformly dense and narrow, but it does have both, and it's run remarkably well so far.