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AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You

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  1. mccoyb · · focus · HN ↗
    Here's the one simple trick that fixes everything:

    - Use the code that your agents write in anger.

    There you go. Do I know when my agents fuck up? Yes, I absolutely do -- because I'm a user of the code I have my agents write, and I ask things like "why is it taking 50 ms to start this program ..." and then I go in and find stupidity, and excise it. I do this over and over again.

    Is it faster than writing it out by hand? Maybe! It's definitely a different perspective.

    Start behaving like a baby "why, why, why" and then do a bit of reading, and you'll be fine.

    A lot of these blog posts seem like they're aimed at software written by B2B companies who don't even use their own software ...

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