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AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up

317 points · 408 comments · julian_digital

  1. torben-friis · · focus · HN ↗
    Here's my constant question:

    Everyone's going so fast that they keep hitting walls. Review, CI, product asking for things, whatever.

    Why have we not seen an improvements in products?

    While every post and thread feels like a 90's wall street office, the new android and iphone ship with fewer features than usual. No indie guys come up with a linux-sized alternative OS. Switch 2 remains unhacked. Windows takes 3 seconds to show the right click menu.

    Is everyone just running full speed in circles or something?

    1. apf6 · · focus · HN ↗
      Last year people were asking "if AI is so great then where are the new apps?". Then data for 2026 came out and now the IOS app store has a 84% percent year-over-year increase in new app submissions.

      For the question where are the alternative OSes? Here is one that I&#x27;ve seen. There&#x27;s probably more - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;ClaudeAI&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1wfpydl&#x2F;i_asked_claude_to_build_an_operating_system_from&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;ClaudeAI&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1wfpydl&#x2F;i_asked_c...

      For that other stuff you mentioned like the right click menu. Those huge corporate projects suffer more from layers of institutional dysfunction and will be very very slow to show any improvement. Their dysfunction can&#x27;t be solved with just faster coding.

      Using AI to build more features is easier than using AI to improve existing projects. People will gradually figure out how to do latter too, it&#x27;ll just take longer.

      1. globular-toast · · focus · HN ↗
        We know it&#x27;s easy to produce working code now, what&#x27;s missing is useful software that actually solves a problem. What problem does that toy OS solve? The main point of toy OSes has been education, but you learn nothing when using an LLM. So all of this is just pointless energy consumption, it&#x27;s not solving any real problems that people have.
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