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One Month Without AI

188 points · 228 comments · saibotk

  1. austin-cheney · · focus · HN ↗
    Yeah, I have never understood the over reliance on AI. Writing the code is not the challenge. The time it takes to push a new feature and test it out is often trivial, maybe a few hours.

    The real challenge is forming the new ideas in the first place and most of those new ideas coming either from using the code as a product or time spent maintaining and refactoring large code.

    Anyways, if you want to continue on the path towards regaining control and take it to the next level I wrote something similar here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.sharefile.systems&#x2F;be-brave-go-low&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.sharefile.systems&#x2F;be-brave-go-low&#x2F;

    1. XCSme · · focus · HN ↗
      Wriring the code is not the challenge, but it&#x27;s what was taking up most of the time. Not the typing itself, but also because I had to think of how to implement it.

      Now I can just say &quot;add 2FA&quot; and in 5 minutes, while I test something else, it is done.

      It also made iterations a lot faster, you can try something out, see how it feels, if it doesn&#x27;t work, you can just trash all the code and start again.

      1. anygivnthursday · · focus · HN ↗
        But you still have to review that 2FA code and that involves thinking through the implementation, right?
        1. XCSme · · focus · HN ↗
          No.

          Haven&#x27;t typed a line of code or read any code for over 6 months now.

          And I used to love coding and be a competitive programmer, but this is how &quot;coding&quot; goes nowdays.

          I have a mental model of what it would do, and how it would work, and I ask questions to confirm things and tell it to watch for specific gotchas. Then simply test the feature myself a bit.

          Security-wise, I think the latest cyber models are better than me anyway at finding vulnerabilitates and pentesting such features.

          Plus 2FA is a very common pattern, so it likely has in the training dataset many really good implementations.

          1. aprilthird2021 · · focus · HN ↗
            Be brave and post a GitHub of your code that you haven&#x27;t written a lick of and haven&#x27;t read.

            EDIT: Come on? Won&#x27;t post your code for everyone to see? Why not just put it all in a repo, client and server both?

            EDIT 2: Amazing. If you punch in notes on the keyboard for like 10 seconds then click the keyboard-icon button on the bottom right the website crashes

            EDIT 3: If you click the main CTA then click &quot;Let&#x27;s start&quot; the website hangs and you need to manually refresh the page for the content to load

            1. Kiro · · focus · HN ↗

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