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1. torben-friis · 1790026444 · 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. aprilthird2021 · 1790044981 · focus · HN ↗

      AI makes a lot of drudgery type coding tasks a lot easier (think code migrations, etc.)

      But actually coming up with, testing, and rolling out loved new user features. AI isn't that good at that and we can't really "prompt" that out of it as easily as we can prompt a py2 to py3 conversion of old code

      1. Rapzid · 1790085313 · focus · HN ↗

         I'm noticing this. Net new features need a ton of extra human input vs cleanup, bug fix, or translation tasks.

         Models are just terrible at system design. Which makes sense as they are largely trained on "tasks" right?

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